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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
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William O. Douglas
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: October 16
Died: 1980
Died: January 19
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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Violence has no constitutional sanction and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
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A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.
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A reporter is no better than his source of information.
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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make no law which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that no law does not mean what it says, that no law is qualified to mean some laws. I cannot take this step.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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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.
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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