Warren E. Burger Quotes

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• The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This…
• [No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
• Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America....
• Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should...
• To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at…
• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a…
• 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 correct. People with…
• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
• Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not…
• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling…
• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
• There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
• [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum…
• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
• There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is…
• However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values…

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