Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
EARL WARRENIt is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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.
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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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