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 WARRENIf it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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 civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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