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

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Money
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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

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Government
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Justice & Law
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. – Frank Zappa

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honoré de Balzac

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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Only very intelligent people dont wish they were in politics, and Im dumb enough to want to be in there. – Orson Welles

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