The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARRENTo get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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.
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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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