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 WARRENLife and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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 fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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