Earl Warren
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.Collection: Money
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.Collection: Education
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.Collection: Sports
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Marriage
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.Collection: Government
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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.
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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.
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.
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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.
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.
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.
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.Collection: Rights
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.Collection: Diversity
Citizenship is the right to have rights.Collection: Rights
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.Collection: Rights
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."Collection: Years
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.Collection: Responsibility
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.Collection: Law
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.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Christian
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.Collection: Cities
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.Collection: Character
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Inspirational
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.Collection: Yield
Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.Collection: Country
[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.Collection: Heart
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.Collection: Opportunity
[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.Collection: War
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.Collection: Children