Earl Warren Quotes

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• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  Earl Warren

  Eugenics, Government, People

  Address to National Press Club in Washington DC. Freedom and Union magazine, April 1952.

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• When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

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  Rights, Groups, Erode

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

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  Diversity, Gains, Bitter

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• 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 an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

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  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

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  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

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  Life, Determination, Adoption

  "Do It : Let's Get Off Our Buts". Book by Peter John Roger McWilliams, 1992.

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• 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 liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

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  Religious, Rights, Air

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• Citizenship is the right to have rights.

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  Rights, Citizenship

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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”

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• 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 education.

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  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

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  Change, Focus, Achievement

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• It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

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  Rights, Bills, Today

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• A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

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  Responsibility, Government, Democracy

  Earl Warren (1972). “A Republic, If You Can Keep It. -”

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• I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

  Earl Warren

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

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  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

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  Cities, People, Tree

  Earl Warren (1977). “The memoirs of Earl Warren”

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• 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 desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

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  Gun, Rights, People

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit.

  Earl Warren

  Fashion, Law, Long

  Speaking to William O. Douglas on the afternoon of the day he died, July 09, 1974. "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas" by William O. Douglas, p. 514, 1980.

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• The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  Earl Warren

  Law, Police, Feelings

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

  Earl Warren

  Taken, Law, Individuality

  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79, 1965.

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• I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

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  Positive, Money, Hate

  "The Book of Business Quotations". Book by Eugene Weber, p. 20, 1991.

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• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

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  Mistake, Heart, Worry

  "Earl Warren : A Great American Story" by Irving Stone, (p. 64), 1948.

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• 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 defence of our nation worthwhile.

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  Inspirational, Names, Ironic

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• Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Justice, Excellence

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• To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  Earl Warren

  Mean, Law, Justice

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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