If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
EARL WARRENI always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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