... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can nev…

- John Henry Wigmore

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

- John Henry Wigmore

Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, i…

- John Henry Wigmore

Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawye…

- John Henry Wigmore

Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more …

- John Henry Wigmore

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 befo…

- John Henry Wigmore

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular cas…

- John Henry Wigmore