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.
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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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.
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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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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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