If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
EARL WARRENLife and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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