The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARRENTo separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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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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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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.
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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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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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