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.
EARL WARRENBefore this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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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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