"The jury system is the handmaid of freedom. It catches and takes on the spirit of liberty, and grows and expands with the progress of constitutional government. Rome, Sparta and Carthage fell because they did not know it, let not England and America fall because they threw it away." Charles S. May (1875)

"The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinized by twelve honest men, defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law." Sir Winston Churchill (1956)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense." Buddha

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." Justice Louis Brandeis

"Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit." Harry S. Truman

"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 1789

"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

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it." Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972)