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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
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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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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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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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
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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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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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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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