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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation (William O Douglas Quotes)
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies (William O Douglas Quotes)
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left (William O Douglas Quotes)
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged (William O Douglas Quotes)
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field (William O Douglas Quotes)
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live (William O Douglas Quotes)
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life (William O Douglas Quotes)
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest (William O Douglas Quotes)
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together (William O Douglas Quotes)
Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets (William O Douglas Quotes)
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property (William O Douglas Quotes)
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment (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 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized (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)
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us (William O Douglas Quotes)
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts (William O Douglas Quotes)
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience (William O Douglas Quotes)
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas (William O Douglas Quotes)
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others (William O Douglas Quotes)
When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live. (William O Douglas Quotes)
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? (William O Douglas Quotes)
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars (William O Douglas Quotes)
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. (William O Douglas Quotes)
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. (William O Douglas Quotes)
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. (William O Douglas Quotes)
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. (William O Douglas Quotes)
Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor (William O Douglas Quotes)
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. (William O Douglas Quotes)
The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual. (William O Douglas Quotes)