Quotes from Earl Warren


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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.


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.


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.


We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.


Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.


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.


There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.


Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.


We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.


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.


All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.


In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.


Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.


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.


Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.


In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.


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


I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.


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


Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.