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It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
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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Lawyer
Trade Unionist
University Teacher
William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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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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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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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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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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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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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
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Common sense often makes a good law.
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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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No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.
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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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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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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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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
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