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 WARRENSeparate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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