Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
EARL WARRENIn civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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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 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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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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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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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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