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• It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, in that case
  o find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court....
• ABSURDITY: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
• We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. -- John Adam
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong.
  -- Alexander Hamilton, advice to jurors to acquit -- against the judge's instructio...
• It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
  But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living....
• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...