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

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

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Age
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. Theyre first in with their fees and first out when theres trouble. – Earl Warren

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positive
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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

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Patriotism
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Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
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Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken

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Justice & Law

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

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Justice & Law

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Justice & Law

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao-tzu

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Justice & Law

Random Quotes

Ive brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When Im home Im a big-time daddy. – Armand Assante

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relationship

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. – Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, 1959

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Media

The best contraceptive is the word no — repeated frequently. – Margaret Smith

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Birth Control

But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson

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Freedom