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.
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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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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