Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
EARL WARRENSuch an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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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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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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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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