Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
EARL WARRENA 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
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In 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.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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