Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.
There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.
The whole trial seemed surreal.
Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
You will fail. Then they will kill you. " - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair. [Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial. ]
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.
I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?