Earl Warren Quotes

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• The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
• [Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.
• 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…
• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but…
• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
• Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he…
• To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
• In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place
• 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…
• Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
• The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
• 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.
• The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental…
• 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…
• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
• Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil…
• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It…
• Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

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