Citizenship is the right to have rights.
EARL WARRENIt is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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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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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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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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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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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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