Quotes from Earl Warren

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.

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.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. (On assassination of President John F Kennedy(

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

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism." [ Address to National Press Club in Washington DC , as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.

When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior." - Earl Warren

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

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 most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

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.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

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

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

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.