Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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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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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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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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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.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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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.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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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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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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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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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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