The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARRENRacial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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