In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

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.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

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

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

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

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention

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

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.