Earl Warren Quotes

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That’s what is important.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.

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.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along – not the Congress nor the courts.

The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

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.

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 don’t know, but they do.