Earl Warren Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Religious, Rights, Air

• It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

  Earl Warren

  Inspirational, Names, Ironic

• The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, 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

  Law, Police, Feelings

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

• 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

  Men, Law, Liberty

  "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas", (p. 514), 1980.

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

  Earl Warren

  Liberty, World, Communism

  Earl Warren's speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954.

• 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

  Liberty, Criminals, Used

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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