Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARRENIt 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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