If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
EARL WARRENWhen the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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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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I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
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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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