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

Earl Warren

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.
EARL WARREN

Care Hate Money Positive Trouble
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.
EARL WARREN

Liberty Name Nation Ourselves Protection Worth
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
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN

Force Freedom Liberty Power World
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.
EARL WARREN

Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
EARL WARREN

Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
EARL WARREN

Complain Growth Old People Privilege
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
EARL WARREN

Education Equality Inheritance Separate
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
EARL WARREN

Citizenship One Liner Privilege Right
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.
EARL WARREN

Character Discover Man Meaning Path Possible Sensitive
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
EARL WARREN

Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
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
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARREN

Economic People Representation Vote
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
EARL WARREN

Government People Perspective Politics Progress
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.
EARL WARREN

Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security

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