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• It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgement, and conscience.
  -- John Adam...
• We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. -- John Adam
• It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
  But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living....
• He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill
• Direct a direct hit on your direct opponent, directing in the right direction.
• hardcore signature virus: "As a juror in a Trial by Jury, you have the right, power and duty to acquit the defendant if you judge the law itself to be unjust.
  -- John McPherson, mcpherso@macvax.ucsd.edu...
• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
• DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
  Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port....
• Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgement.