Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARRENThe 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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