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 WARRENThose 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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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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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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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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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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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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