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Former Chief Justice Of The United States Inspirational Quotes (91)

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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
Warren E. Burger
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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
Warren E. Burger
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The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
Warren E. Burger
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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
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The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
Warren E. Burger
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There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
Warren E. Burger
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger
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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
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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
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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
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The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.
John Marshall
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Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.
John Marshall
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
Earl Warren
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Warren E. Burger
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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
Earl Warren
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[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.
Warren E. Burger
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The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.
Earl Warren
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[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
Warren E. Burger
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Warren E. Burger
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I fear we may live to see another revolution.
John Marshall
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The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
John Marshall
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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
John Marshall
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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.
Earl Warren
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