Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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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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 censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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