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• The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
  -- Judge John Kane, US District Cou...
• 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...
• It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, in that case
  o find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court....
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• Each man is led by his own liking. Virgil
• It is in his own interest that a cat purrs.
• Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own. -- Thoreau
• Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
• Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?
  "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." -- Ayn Rand...