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Warren E. Burger was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Explore interesting quotes on public.

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“The entire legal profession - lawyers, judges, law teachers - has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest that we tend to forget that we ought to be healers - healers of conflicts. Doctors, in spite of astronomical medical costs, 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?”

Warren E. Burger

Annual address to the America Bar Association winter convention, Las Vegas (February 12, 1984).

Law , Confidence , Teachers , Forgetting

“No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees "on the public payroll." There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.”

Warren E. Burger

Walz v. Tax Commission, 397 U.S. 664, 675 (1970).

Religion , Art

“If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment.... This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

Warren E. Burger

Interview (from min 7:49) https://vimeo.com/157433062 at MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, PBS television broadcast (Dec. 16, 1991)

Fraud