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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

Earl Warren

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.
EARL WARREN

Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Deep Justice Law Obey Police
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
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Care Hate Money Positive Trouble
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
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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Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
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
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.
EARL WARREN

Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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Complain Growth Old People Privilege
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
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
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
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
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
EARL WARREN

Completion Joy Quiet World

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