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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 Warren

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 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
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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Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
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
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
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
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Army Goodness Revolution Stand War
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
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
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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Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
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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Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security

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.

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