Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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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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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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