I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
EARL WARRENOur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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 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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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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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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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