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.
EARL WARRENIn 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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 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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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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