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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

Earl Warren

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
In 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.
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Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
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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Administration Excellence Fair Inspirational Justice Maintain Service Vision
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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Equality Opportunity Right
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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Heart Learning Mistake Worry
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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Absence Loss Ourselves Sick Society Voice
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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Complain Growth Old People Privilege
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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Care Hate Money Positive Trouble
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Army Goodness Revolution Stand War
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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Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security
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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Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way

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