It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
EARL WARRENLiberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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 get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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