William O. Douglas Quotes - 9quotes.com

Common sense often makes good law.
Written by William O. Douglas
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Written by William O. Douglas
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.
Written by William O. Douglas
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Written by William O. Douglas
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.
Written by William O. Douglas
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
Written by William O. Douglas
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
Written by William O. Douglas
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
Written by William O. Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
Written by William O. Douglas
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
Written by William O. Douglas
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
Written by William O. Douglas
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.
Written by William O. Douglas
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.
Written by William O. Douglas
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Written by William O. Douglas
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
Written by William O. Douglas
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.
Written by William O. Douglas
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Written by William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
Written by William O. Douglas
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Written by William O. Douglas
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
Written by William O. Douglas
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
Written by William O. Douglas

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