Accomplishment Quote by Warren E. Burger

“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 that they are…” quote by Warren E. Burger — Download Open image

“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 that they are not to become masters of reality.”

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The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other…

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The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to…

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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

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There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

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[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

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The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

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