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?

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.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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.

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?