Earl Warren Quotes

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

Sports, Nothing, Turn

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren

Government, Others, Progress

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

Marriage, Women, Less

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
Earl Warren

Life, Hell, Caught

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

Positive, Hate, Care

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
Earl Warren

Law, While, Police

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren

Education, Law, State

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Earl Warren

Today, Before, Completion

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren

Justice, Law, Alive

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.
Earl Warren

Age, Children, Feeling

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren

Money, May, Discovered

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren

Heart, Learn, Worry

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren

Heart, Free, Expression

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
Earl Warren

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Earl Warren

Greatest, Reward

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Earl Warren

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

Life, Education, May

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
Earl Warren

Trees, Represent, Acres

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren

Liberty, Force, Communism

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren

Separate, Unequal, Facilities

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren

Patriotism, Time, Failure

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
Earl Warren

Education, Place, Public

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
Earl Warren

May, Whole, Story

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.
Earl Warren

Life, Thought, Liberty

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.
Earl Warren

Person, May, Him

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 19, 1891

Died: July 9, 1974

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