I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
EARL WARRENThe police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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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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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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