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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
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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Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
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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Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
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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Heart Learning Mistake Worry
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
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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Absence Loss Ourselves Sick Society Voice
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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Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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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Care Hate Money Positive Trouble
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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Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Inspirational Motivational Work Yourself
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth

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