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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
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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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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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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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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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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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