Quotes of: Jury-duty Keyword

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Jello Biafra

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

Gary Gilmore

Lewis: Anybody know anything about the law? Drew: I was on a jury once.

Deliverance

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Edmund Barton

Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellio...

The Abolition of Man

It was the mission of the Confederacy, ordinary whites were told, to carry out God’s design for an inferior and dependent race. Slaveholders claimed that owning slaves always entailed a duty and a burden — a duty and burden that defined the moral...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

James Gray

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Lysander Spooner

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

Ben Bradlee

To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times -- madness.

Dutch

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Alexis Carrel

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote.

Japanese

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.

Japanese