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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Freedom
Free Speech
Speech
Free
Carries
Listen
Some
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Abuse
Higher
Order
Risk
Taken
Calculated
Preserve
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
American Life
Crime
Fabric
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Judgement
Judging
Two
Advocate
Judge
Case
Stool
Trial
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Roaming
Constitutional
Field
Judges
Lured
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Ancient
Battle
Blood
Trials
Adversarial
Contest
Trial
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There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
May
Mercy
That One Person
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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 / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
History
Communicate
Scales
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The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Needs
Objectivity
President
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Indifferent
Opinion
Public Opinion
Totally
Basis
Judges
Pressures
Rule
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[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Life
Science
Mind
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Doubt
Fabric
No Doubt
Opening
Practice
Prayer
Legislative
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The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Christian
Liberty
Religious
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Casual
Courtroom
Electrician
Licensing
People
Qualifying
Advocate
Allow
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Teacher
Homosexual
Moral
Protected
Rights
Teaching
Aside
Cast
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Millennia
Somehow
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Judging
Numbers
Way
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Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Criminals
Guilt
Justice
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Justice
Taken
Two
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Odd
Nearly
Centuries
Constitutional
Counsel
Discover
Indeed
Mandate
Preliminary
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Confidentiality
Confrontation
Depends
Interest
Privilege
Public Interest
Arises
Broad
Claim
Conversations
Public
However
Solely
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The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Christian
Religious
Tolerance
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Abolish
Deterrent
Finality
Greater
Judgement
Judgment
Poverty
Trials
Consequences
Arrest
Effect
Factor
Penalty
Prompt
Swift
Trial
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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?
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Confidence
Smile
Doctors
Gun
Warrior
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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 / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Concepts
Cost
Feet
Hands
Lawyer
Lowest
Judge
Carry
Challenge
Shortest
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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 / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
America
Feet
Hands
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Long
Risk
Speech
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Legal
Advertising
Advice
Chickens
Giving
House
Threshold
Bite
Cross
Fox
Hen
Telling
Visit
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The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Exercise
Judging
People
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For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Choices
Editing
Editors
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Equality
Different
Majority
Racism
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Amish
Assumption
Erratic
Majority
Odd
Condemned
Interests
Interferes
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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.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Judging
Pain
People
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[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Church
Steps
Taken
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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Men
Degrees
Reality
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The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Men
Prayer
Views
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