Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARRENThe police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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