Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Earl Warren
American Jurist and Politician, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Governor of California three times, District Attorney for Alameda County, California and Attorney General of California, known for the sweeping decisions ending school segregation and transforming many areas of American law, regarding the rights of the accused, ending school prayer, and requiring "one-man-one vote" rules of apportionment
"In the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
"In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics."
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
"The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn."
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for."
"The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice."