Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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 success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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 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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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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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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 police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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