trial quotes

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

-Thomas, 1st Baron Denman
  Judgement in O'Connell v The Queen, 4 Sep.

Equal and exact justice to all men†freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

-Thomas Jefferson
Inaugural address, 4 Mar.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

A man who has no office to go toI don't care who he isis a trial of which you can have no conception.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Irrational Knot, ch.18.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

- Hunter S(tockton) Thompson
  Letter to The Champion, a legal journal, Jul.