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William O Douglas Quotes
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections. - William O Douglas Quotes
Common sense often makes good law. - William O Douglas Quotes
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. - William O Douglas Quotes
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. - William O Douglas Quotes
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. - William O Douglas Quotes
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. - William O Douglas Quotes
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. - William O Douglas Quotes
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. Thats the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. - William O Douglas Quotes
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? - William O Douglas Quotes
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. - William O Douglas Quotes
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in mens struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. - William O Douglas Quotes
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. - William O Douglas Quotes
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. - William O Douglas Quotes
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. - William O Douglas Quotes
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. - William O Douglas Quotes
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. - William O Douglas Quotes
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - William O Douglas Quotes
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. - William O Douglas Quotes
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. - William O Douglas Quotes
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. - William O Douglas Quotes
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. - William O Douglas Quotes
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. - William O Douglas Quotes
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