In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARRENThe fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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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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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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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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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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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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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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