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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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
William Douglas
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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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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But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
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A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
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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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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 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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