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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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
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The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
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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.
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
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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.
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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
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It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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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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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 law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
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Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
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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 dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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The Fifth 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.
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