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“The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinised by twelve honest men, defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”

Winston Churchill · A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1956-1958 · Primary source