| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35264 |
| QUOTATION: | I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Harper Lee (b. 1926), U.S. author. Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird, pt. 2, ch. 20 (1960).
In his speech to the jury. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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