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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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
Judge
Lawyer
Trade Unionist
University Teacher
William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
Disinfectant
Sunlight
Honesty
Best
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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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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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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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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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
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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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It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
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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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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
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I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.
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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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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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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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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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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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