I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
EARL WARRENI always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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 fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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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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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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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 censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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