"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." - Thomas Jefferson (1788)

"Trail by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature." - James Madison (1789)

"The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinized by twelve honest men [and women], defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from abritrary perversion of the law." - Sir Winston Churchill (1956)