Trial Quotes
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At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don’t need to falter.
james macdonald— p. 109 (Always True (Moody, 2011))
Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep… an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home… [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial."
tucker carlson— Slate magazine, 17 July 1997
So, Damocles, since this life delights you, do you wish to taste it yourself and make trial of my fortune?
dionysius i of syracuse— As quoted by Cicero, in Tusculan disputations 5.61 as translated by Gavin Betts
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
thomas fuller— Thomas Fuller, Proverbs (1732), p. 116.
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
Max Born— Experiment and Theory in Physics (1943), p. 44
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
william james— Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
george mason— Article 11 (Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776))
Flight, or an escape from arrest for felony, is an acknowledgment of guilt . . . every man, who is accused, is bound to submit himself to the judgment of the law; and, whether it be a trespass, or whether it be a felony with which he is charged, it may, with truth, be said of him who shrinks from trial facinus fatetur qui judicium fugit.
— Day, J., Johnson's Case (1805), 29 How. St. Tr. 192.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
— Mahatma Gandhi, "An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth", Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II. [5]
As you know I have been preaching along with El Duce and Sickie Wifebeater for many years against homosexuality in rock and it's time to take revenge on people that try to stop rock. The real rock, hetero rock. There for Bowie is going on trial within Rock Kourt.
steve broy— YouTube video by Dr. Heathen Scum at YouTube video at YouTube
For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Our system is too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people.
warren e. burger— Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Los Vegas (February 12, 1984).
Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
romain gary— La Nuit Sera Calme [The Night Will Be Calm] (1974)
Animals were allowed to have lawyers — even insects. The insects (usually fleas, lice or locusts) had to be given three days' notice before the trial and some representatives brought into court, duly notified, and then freed so they could warn others.
daniel p. mannix— The History of Torture (1964), p. 89
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...
Daniel O'Connell— O’Connell’s Correspondence, Letter No 700, Vol II
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
horace walpole— "Memoirs of the year 1758" in Memoirs of King George II. Volume III (Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 10-11.
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
william whewell— Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Lecture 7. (1852)
History and experience tells us that moral progress cannot come in comfortable and in complacent times, but out of trial and out of confusion.
jerry ford— Quoted variant: History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
samuel johnson— August 15, 1773.
Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.
Ben Jonson— The Touchstone of Truth (1624), lines 1-4.
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
carl sagan— Cosmos (1980, p. 29)
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial"
ariel sharon— March 25, 2001 BBC
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
— Gerald R. Ford, in Joy Ashe Gene Defense: A Fictional Genetic Thriller, Xlibris Corporation, 22 October 2010, p.263
He that doth refuse to put himself upon his legal trial of God and the Country, is a mute in law; and therefore you must plead guilty or not guilty. Let his language be what it will, he is a mute in law.
— Bridgman, L.C.B., Axtel's Case (1660), 5 How. St. Tr. 1007.
Blackstone considers trial by jury as having been universally established amongst all the northern nations, and so interwoven in their very Constitution, that the earliest accounts of the one gives us also some traces of the other.
— Blackstone, Vol. III., p. 349; St. Com. Vol. III., 8th ed., Bk. 5, c. 11, p. 532.
It is infinitely better that a cause should be tried upon a view had by any twelve than by six of the first twelve; or by any six; or by fewer than six; or even without any view at all, than that the trial should be delayed from year to year, perhaps for ever: it can never be proper or necessary to grant a view which is asked and used for so unjust a purpose.
— Lord Mansfield (1765), 1 Burr. Part IV. 254.
Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.
— Edward Thompson, p. 585. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In this surrender if such it may be called the National Government does not even stoop to conquer. It simply lifts itself to the height of its original principle. The early efforts of its best negotiators, the patriotic trial of its soldiers … may at last prevail.
— Charles Sumner, sustaining President Lincoln in the U.S. Senate, in the Trent Affair. Jan. 7, 1862.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
— Act IV, scene 7, 19, line 789.
Now come along, bring me before your master so that we can begin the trial of the Century.
— Who: Daimyo Kubota
— Source: Order of the Stick
— Notes: Character had been captured by Elan during his attempt to kill Hinjo and seize power, and planned on blaming Therkla for everything and using his trial to gain support for himself and avoid being held responsible for his crimes. As Elan replies that they have witnesses against him, Vaarsuvius kills him with a Disintegrate spell and blows his ashes away for the sake of convenience.
