Quotes by Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. >>

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. >>

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. >>

Quotations about Juries

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it w >>

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve >>

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. >>

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.