If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
EARL WARRENBen Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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 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.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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