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.
EARL WARRENSeparate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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 success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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