Famous Earl Warren Quotations

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"When the history of the Supreme Court in the 20th century is written, there will be two great chief justices: Earl Warren and William Rehnquist. Both presided over courts that changed the law in a very dramatic way."
by Mark Tushnet
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for."
by Earl Warren
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
by 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.'"
by Earl Warren
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
by Earl Warren
"Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests."
by Earl Warren
"Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world."
by Earl Warren
"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."
by Chief Justice Earl Warren
"The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual."
by Earl Warren
"The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures."
by Jutice Earl Warren
"The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures."
by Earl Warren
"We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. (On assassination of President John F Kennedy("
by Earl Warren
"We must have a program to learn the way out of prison."
by Warren Earl Burger
"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."
by Earl Warren
"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."
by Warren Earl Burger
"It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of those liberties which make the defense of the nation worthwhile."
by Earl Warren
"Neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. The President's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. 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. Absent a claim of need to protect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets, we find it difficult to accept the argument that even the very important interest in confidentiality of Presidential communications is significantly diminished by production of such material for in camera inspection with all the protection that a district court will be obliged to provide."
by Warren Earl Burger


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