Earl Warren - People Quotes

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

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

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege."

Earl Warren

It is a mistake to expect all to practice democracy as we do. There are as many democratic ways of getting things done as there are uses of the imagination and vision. Free government is not so much a question of the form of the institution as it is a way of life of the people.

Earl Warren

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

Earl Warren