Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Earl Warren Quotes Click here for Earl Warren books Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." "We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." "In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics." "When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities 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." "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive." "For almost two centuries, our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution, and the most cherished of those ideals have found expression in the First Amendment." "Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for." "I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures." "If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn." "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." "The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along— not the Congress nor the courts." "Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world." "Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism." "The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual." "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism." "The police must obey the law while enforcing the law." "You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important." |
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