Earl Warren

“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.”

“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.”

“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

“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.”

“We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.”

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

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

“I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.”

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

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

“If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.”

“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.”

“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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