I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
EARL WARRENLegislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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