It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
EARL WARRENIn 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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