Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
EARL WARRENBen Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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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 most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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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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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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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
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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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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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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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