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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.

Earl Warren

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.
EARL WARREN

Patience Reason Strike Wait War
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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Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
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 WARREN

Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
EARL WARREN

Army Goodness Revolution Stand War
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.
EARL WARREN

Care Hate Money Positive Trouble
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.
EARL WARREN

Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN

Force Freedom Liberty Power World
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
EARL WARREN

Doubt Introduction Law Politics Rule
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
EARL WARREN

Equality Opportunity Right
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.
EARL WARREN

Liberty Name Nation Ourselves Protection Worth
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.
EARL WARREN

Discrimination Education Law Principle Race
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.
EARL WARREN

Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
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.
EARL WARREN

Absence Loss Ourselves Sick Society Voice
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN

Action Hell Life Myself Worth
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
EARL WARREN

Heart Learning Mistake Worry
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARREN

Economic People Representation Vote

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