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

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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
Warren E. Burger
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Earl Warren
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish or others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
Warren E. Burger
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
John Marshall
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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.
Earl Warren
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren
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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
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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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We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
Warren E. Burger
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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
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The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
Warren E. Burger
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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place
Earl Warren
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
John Marshall
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In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
John Marshall
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No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.
John Marshall
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No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
John Marshall
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Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
Earl Warren
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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.
Earl Warren
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So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
John Rutledge
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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
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger
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The power to tax involves the power to destroy...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.
John Marshall
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