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Juries and judges


 A judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found the long-winded speeches of lawyers especially trying and advised them to take a course of reading risqué books that they might learn to say things by innuendo

 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
  Robert Frost

 A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance
  Herbert Spencer

 Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

 I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge

 Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

 Judges don't age; time decorates them.
  Enid Bagnold

 Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him
  Henry Louis Mencken

 No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole world who can be neutral toward this crime, that judge is not fit to sit in judgment.

 Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge
  Henry Ward Beecher

 The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

 The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

 The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
  Thomas Jefferson

 The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try
  William Shakespeare

 The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance


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