"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute autho…"

"One often-cited abuse of the nullification power is the acquittal by bigoted juries of whites who commit crimes (lync…"

"I think a mistrial from a hung jury is a safeguard to liberty. In many areas it is the sole means by which one or a f…"

"In the ultimate analysis, only the jury can strip a man of his liberty or his life."

"Make every private Sentinel, every Musquetier, both Judge, Jury, and Executioner."

"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

"Were I called upon to decide whether the people had best be omitted in the Legislative or Judiciary department, I wou…"

"Where it really matters to us, as in choosing a surgeon to remove an inflamed appendix, we tend to forsake democracy …"

"Jurors now expect us to have a DNA test for just about every case, they expect us to have the most advanced technolog…"

"[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede t…"