What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,--violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?