Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
EARL WARRENMere 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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