Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.
He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly.
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide. ' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors. . . are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.
Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on pornography was, "I may not be able to define it but I know it when I see it. " That's not law. That's definitely not law. Really, this trial should have been an organized crime trial. About murder and tax evasion and brutalizing people. Not about obscenity.
I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
The whole trial seemed surreal.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.
