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.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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