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Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
Earl Warren
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Earl Warren
Age: 83 †
Born: 1891
Born: March 19
Died: 1974
Died: July 9
Former Chief Justice Of The United States
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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.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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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.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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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.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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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.
Earl Warren
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.
Earl Warren
