It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
EARL WARRENEverything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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 censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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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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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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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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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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