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Earl Warren

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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.
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Interview in 1953 after being appointed to the Supreme Court, as quote in Earl Warren : A Political Biography (1967) by Leo Katcher, p. 315

 
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