The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
EARL WARRENIn mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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