The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not…

- Warren E. Burger

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all reli…

- Warren E. Burger

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 no…

- Warren E. Burger

The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day an…

- Warren E. Burger

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…

- Warren E. Burger

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic …

- Warren E. Burger

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

- Warren E. Burger

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? …

- Warren E. Burger

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

- Warren E. Burger