History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment...… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share
