Quotes of Earl Warren - somelinesforyou

“ 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.' ”

- Earl Warren

“ Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ 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. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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.'. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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. ”

- Earl Warren

“ The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ”

- Earl Warren

“ The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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.'. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ 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. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ”

- Earl Warren

“ 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

“ The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ 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

“ Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren

“ Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. ”

- Earl Warren

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

- Earl Warren
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