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.
EARL WARRENThe police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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 success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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