Bill Daniels on the importance of being a trial lawyer

I saw a post today at Billdanielsblog.com and it included this quote from Alexander Hamilton. 

As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 83 (one of my favorite quotes):

"The friends and adversaries of (the proposed federal constitution), if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury; or if there is any difference between them it consists in this: the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty; the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government."  (A "palladium," by the way, is "anything believed to provide protection or safety.")

Source: California Insurance, Personal Injury and Wage Hour Law Blog: Why personal injury lawyers help keep our country strong.

The rest of his post is worth reading, too.