Warren E. Burger
Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burgerwas the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a variety of liberal decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth17 September 1907
CountryUnited States of America
christian religious tolerance
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
life mind able
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
trials poverty judgment
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.
confidence warrior gun
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?
may that-one-person mercy
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
history scales communicate
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
taken two hearing
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.
numbers judging may
We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
blood battle trials
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
prayer practice doubt
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
justice guilt trials
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].
christian religious liberty
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
reality men example
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
giving house advice
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.