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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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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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 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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I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
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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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There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.
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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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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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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
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Common sense often makes a good law.
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Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
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Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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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 most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
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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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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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