Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARRENLiberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
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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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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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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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