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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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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
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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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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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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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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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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make no law which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that no law does not mean what it says, that no law is qualified to mean some laws. I cannot take this step.
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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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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