Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARRENMany people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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 success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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