Famous Quotes
"Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs
of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being
ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and
clothed like swine and hounds"
John Adams, 1774
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that
is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature
and in the courts of justice”
John Adams, 1774
"Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of
reason."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers
are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously.
Well, they're wrong; usually, they are not smarter."
F. Lee Bailey
"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you
want is also big enough to take away everything you have."
Barry Goldwater
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and
angle of contingency and qualifies all his qualifications, but who
throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a
scrape."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press
exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the
answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
Raymond Chandler
"If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law,
every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an
essential part of the democratic process."
Justice Felix Frankfurter, concurring, United States v. Mine
Workers.
"Glass, china, and reputations are easily cracked, and never well
mended."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1732-57.
"Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression, in order that every
[person] can present his/her views without penalty, there must be a
spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
Albert Einstein
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends on his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth,
and is confident."
Proverbs 14:16
"The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been
devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. Trial by jury is part of a
bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety."
Thomas Jefferson
"Trial by jury is the best appendage of freedom."
Patrick Henry
"The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many
centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the
axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law
"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."
Clarence Darrow, 1936
"People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should
never watch either of them being made."
Otto Bismark
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Earl Warren
"Justice is incidental to law and order."
John Edgar Hoover
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
Edmund Burke
"Poverty is the mother of crime."
Marcus Aurelius
"The path to your greatest POTENTIAL is often straight through your
greatest FEAR."
Pastor Craig Groeschel, Lifechurch.tv
“Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean there is no one out to
get you.”
Henry Kissinger
"The first to present his case seems right, till another comes
forward and questions him."
Proverbs 18:17 (New International Version)
"Law is a pledge that the citizens of a state will do justice to one
another."
Lycophron, 3rd Century BC Greek poet and scholar
"Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins."
John Locke, 17th Century English philosopher
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can
keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
Dr. Martin Luther King, American Civil Rights Leader
"I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing
to be a lawyer."
Adolph Hitler
"The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English
justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and
plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law."
Winston Churchill
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by
man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its
constitution."
Thomas Jefferson
"The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted
to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our
political faith."
Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address 1801
"Learn to do right; seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the
cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow."
The Song of Solomon - Isaiah 1:17
"Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive
decrees, depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my peoples' poor of
their rights, making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey."
Isaiah 10:1-2
"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always
agree with them.
Former President George W. Bush
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never
listen."
Ernest Hemingway
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in
yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with
great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior
talent."
Sophia Loren
"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It
settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."
Mark Twain
"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than
slavery."
Lawana Blackwell
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the
formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."
Herbert B. Swope
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material
force, that thoughts rule the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you are comes to you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
Frank Tyger
"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
Lee Iacocca
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he
is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
Sidney J. Harris
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
W.C. Fields
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell
"I sincerely believe . . . that banking establishments are more
dangerous than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson, 1816
"Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to
mankind."
John Adams, 1765
"No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood;
the rest, by right, belonged to the state."
Benjamin Franklin
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astound ourselves."
Thomas A. Edison
"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause
of it."
Al Batt
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle
"The first step in getting the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want."
Ben Stein
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, 'Certainly I
can!,' then get busy and find out how to do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Better to be forgotten than sued."
Dave Weinbaum
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you
want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to
pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
George Washington
"When a child turns 12, he should be kept in a barrel and fed through
the bung hole, until he reaches 16 ... at which time you plug the bung
hole"
Mark Twain
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is you never know if they
are genuine."
Abraham Lincoln
"Energizer Bunn arrested, charged with battery."
Unknown
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much
arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good people is but
knowledge in the making."
John Milton
"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for
it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery
numbers."
Homer Simpson
"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch."
W.C. Fields
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along
with people, of getting things done."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth -- unless, of
course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K. Jerome
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"The civil jury trial is preferable to any other and ought to be held
sacred."
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
"In civil suits the parties have a right to trial by jury and this
method of procedure shall be held sacred."
Massachusetts Constitution, 1780
"Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes,
[and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on the same
footing; they are the common rights of Americans."
Richard Henry Lee
"I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever yet imagined by
man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its
constitution."
Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine
"By a declaration of rights I mean one which shall stipulate freedom
of religion, freedom of the press, trial by juries in all cases..."
Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald
"The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty."
Alexander Hamilton
"In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential
to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent
rights of nature."
James Madison
"In suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is one of
the greatest securities to the rights of the people."
Virginia Bill of Rights, 1788
"One of the strongest objections originally taken against the
Constitution of the United States was the want of an express provision
securing the right of trial by jury in civil cases. As soon as the
Constitution was adopted, this right was secured by the Seventh
Amendment."
Justice Joseph Story, 1830
"The right of trial by jury is expressly secured by the Seventh
Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has always guarded this constitutional
right with jealousy."
Justice Stanley Matthews, 1885
"The founders of our government thought that trial by civil jury was
an essential bulwark of civil liberty."
Justice Hugo Black, 1939
"The right of trial by jury in civil cases is so fundamental and
sacred to the citizen that it should be jealously guarded by the
courts."
Justice Frank Murphy, 1942
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations."
Chuck Swindoll
"The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to
prepare."
Thane Yost
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in
your power to do it."
Proverbs 3:27
"Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no
harm."
Proverbs 3:30
"There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal
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there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a
Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant
man the equal of any college president.
That institution, gentlemen, is the court."
Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
“Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most
effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government....Among
deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population,
crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every
heart.”
Justice Robert H. Jackson, U.S.Sup.Ct.
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