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.
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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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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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