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

Earl Warren

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 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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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
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
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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Economic People Representation Vote
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
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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Liberty Name Nation Ourselves Protection Worth
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
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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Discrimination Education Law Principle Race
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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Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security
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
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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Heart Learning Mistake Worry
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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Absence Loss Ourselves Sick Society Voice
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
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
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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Evidence Himself Law Person Presence Right Silence

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