The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARRENDon’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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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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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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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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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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