Warren E. Burger Quotes

Warren E. Burger — American Judge born on September 17, 1907, died on June 25, 1995

Warren Earl Burger was 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... (wikipedia)

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.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.