The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of… — Warren E. Burger Beats Copy Share Image
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest. — Warren E. Burger Accomplish Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and… — Warren E. Burger Accommodations Copy Share Image
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger American life Copy Share Image
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation… — Warren E. Burger Arises Copy Share Image
Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.... — Warren E. Burger America Copy Share Image
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of… — Warren E. Burger Acceptable Copy Share Image
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger Abuse Copy Share Image
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person. — Warren E. Burger Changed Copy Share Image
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the… — Warren E. Burger Able Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Adviser Copy Share Image
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like… — Warren E. Burger Advertising Copy Share Image
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... — Warren E. Burger Bases Copy Share Image
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger Adversity Copy Share Image
“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of… — Warren E. Burger Amish Copy Share Image
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest… — Warren E. Burger America Copy Share Image
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of… — Warren E. Burger Education Copy Share Image
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate. — Warren E. Burger Communicate Copy Share Image
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or… — Warren E. Burger Abuse Copy Share Image
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. — Warren E. Burger Constitutional Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our… — Warren E. Burger Doubt Copy Share Image
There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them,… — Warren E. Burger Amendments Copy Share Image
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often… — Warren E. Burger Crime Copy Share Image
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing… — Warren E. Burger Casual Copy Share Image
The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not… — Warren E. Burger Black Copy Share Image
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