"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."

"The people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal to a…"

"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…"