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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 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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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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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 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.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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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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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
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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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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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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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Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
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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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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
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Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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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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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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