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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.

Earl Warren

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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Character Discover Man Meaning Path Possible Sensitive
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Army Goodness Revolution Stand War
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
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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Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
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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Administration Excellence Fair Inspirational Justice Maintain Service Vision
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
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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Heart Learning Mistake Worry
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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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
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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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
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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Crime Illegal Liberty Life
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal

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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