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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
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Character Discover Man Meaning Path Possible Sensitive
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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Accomplishment Failure Man People Record Sports
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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Completion Joy Quiet World
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Doubt Introduction Law Politics Rule
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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Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
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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Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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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Crime Illegal Liberty Life
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Deep Justice Law Obey Police
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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Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
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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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
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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Equality Opportunity Right

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