However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and – at some point – finality of judgment. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to ‘discover’ a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
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. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. Warren E. Burger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
