Quotes of Warren E. Burger - somelinesforyou

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

- Warren E. Burger

“ Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ”

- Warren E. Burger

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

- Warren E. Burger

“ Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns? ”

- Warren E. Burger

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

- Warren E. Burger

“ We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ”

- Warren E. Burger
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