Jury Duty Quotes

I vote and I do jury duty.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.