Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrus

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honoré de Balzac

Category:
Justice & Law

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Justice & Law

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford

Category:
Justice & Law

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

Category:
Justice & Law

Random Quotes

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. – Yo-Yo Ma

Category:
teacher

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender. – Kirk Cameron

Category:
Trust

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. – James Madison

Category:
best

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or its not going to get the business. – Warren Buffett

Category:
Business