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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?
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For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors-newspaper or broadcast-can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.
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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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It is not possible to arrange for any broadcast of any Supreme Court proceeding, but when you get the Cabinet meetings on the air, call me.
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an expectation that society is prepared to honor.
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The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation.
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The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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We must have a program to "learn the way out of prison."

Biography

Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986, longer than anyone else in the 20th century. His court delivered major decisions on abortion, capital punishment and school desegregation. He worked hard for the adoption of modern management techniques in the nation's judicial system.

Early years

Burger was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, one of seven children. His parents were of Swiss-German descent. His grandfather, Joseph Burger, had emigrated from Switzerland and joined the Union Army when he was 14. Joseph Burger fought and was wounded in the Civil War, and was awarded the Medal of Honor. Warren Burger grew up on the family farm near the edge of St. Paul. He attended John A. Johnson High School, where he was president of the student council. He also played hockey, football, track, and swimming. While in high school, he wrote articles on high school sports for local newspapers. He graduated in 1925.

That same year, Burger also worked with the crew building the Robert Street Bridge, a crossing of the Mississippi River in St. Paul that still exists. Concerned about the number of deaths on the project, he asked that a net be installed to catch anyone who fell, but was rebuffed by managers. In later years, Burger made a point of visiting the bridge whenever he came back to town.

In 1937, Burger served as the 8th President of the St. Paul Jaycees.

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