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

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

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

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
- Earl Warren Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
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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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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.
- Earl Warren Quote

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 Quote

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.
- Earl Warren Quote