Earl Warren – 10 Quotes

10 Quotes by Earl Warren

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

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

– 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.

– Earl Warren

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.

– Earl Warren

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

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

– Earl Warren

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

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

– Earl Warren

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

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

– Earl Warren