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

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

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Justice & Law
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Extreme justice is often injustice. – Jean Racine

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

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Justice & Law

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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Justice & Law

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. – Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957

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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. – William Ralph Inge

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