Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
EARL WARRENSeparate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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