William O. Douglas Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
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.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
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.
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest,
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]
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.
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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.
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.