Earl Warren (1891–1974) was an American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California and later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Justice
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Behavior
Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.
—Earl Warren
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Socialism, Communism
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Ethics
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
—Earl Warren
Topics: News, Failure, Success & Failure, Achievement
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
Topics: Age
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Adversity, Being True to Yourself
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.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Liberty
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Wishes
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Communication
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
—Earl Warren
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
—Earl Warren
Topics: Liberty
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