Earl Warren Quotes
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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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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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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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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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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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
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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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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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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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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.