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A citizen’s constitutional rights can hardly be infringed simply because a majority of the people choose that it be.

Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) Chief Justice, US Supreme Court (1953-69)
Lucas v. Colorado General Assembly, 377 U.S. 713, majority opinion (1964)

Implicit in the term “national defense” is the notion of defending those values and ideas which set this Nation apart. … It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of … those liberties … which makes the defense of the Nation worthwhile.

Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) Chief Justice, US Supreme Court (1953-69)
US v. Robel, 389 US 258 (1967)

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) Chief Justice, US Supreme Court (1953-69)
Majority opinion, Spano v New York, 360 U.S. 315 (1959)

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Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) Chief Justice, US Supreme Court (1953-69)
Speech, Madison, Wisconsin (Jun 1955)