Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
EARL WARRENThe 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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