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Common sense often makes a good law.
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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William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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A reporter is no better than his source of information.
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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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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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
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The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
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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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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
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