7 Earl Warren Quotes on Politics

Earl Warren quotes on politics

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

12. 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.

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

19. 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.

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

24. 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.

29. He represents the kind of political, economic, and social thinking that I believe we need on the Supreme Court:he has a national name for integrity, uprightness, and courage that, again, I believe we need on the Court.