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.
EARL WARRENWe 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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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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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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