This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybodys civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. – Alan Autry
