Top 43 Warren Burger Quotes
#1. Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
Fred F. Fielding
#2. The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
Warren E. Burger
#3. However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
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#4. There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
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#5. The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
Warren E. Burger
#6. The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
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#7. If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
Oliver Goldsmith
#8. We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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#9. Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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#10. There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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#11. Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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#13. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
James Surowiecki
#14. The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
Philippe Halsman
#15. Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger
#16. Time on Earth is an opportunity to become more highly evolved, and then people move on or cross over - a
Patricia Cornwell
#17. Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Warren E. Burger
#18. Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.
Richard Cecil
#19. All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.
Betty White
#20. It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them.
Elizabeth Strout
#21. The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
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#22. There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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#23. Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.
Scott Walker
#24. A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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#25. I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
John Ridley
#26. [No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
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#27. We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
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#28. It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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#29. Late in the afternoon the sky changed to pale gray and there was rain in the air, the atmosphere close and stifling, and a silence clung heavily to the flat colorless plain.
Elmore Leonard
#30. With me and my girl, I'm number one - and she's the index finger. We're the same, but I go where she points.
Jarod Kintz
#31. To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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#32. The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
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#34. If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.
Sarah Holman
#35. We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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#36. Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?
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#37. Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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#38. [W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
John Buchan
#39. There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.
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#40. It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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#41. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
Thurgood Marshall
#43. The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
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