Warren E. Burger Quote

For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Our trials are too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people.


Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Los Vegas (February 12, 1984).


For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle...

For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle...

For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle...

For some disputes, trials will be the only means, but for many claims, trial by adversarial contest must go the way of the ancient trial by battle...