The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARRENThe fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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 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 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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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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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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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