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

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

Other quotes by Earl Warren

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

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Education
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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 dont know, but they do. – Earl Warren

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Marriage
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records peoples accomplishments. The front page has nothing but mans failures. – Earl Warren

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Sports
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Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
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If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury

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Justice & Law

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

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Justice & Law

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own

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Justice & Law

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. – Lord Halifax

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Justice & Law

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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. – Terri Guillemets

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Money

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals – Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine – which set the agenda. – Michael Pollan

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Science