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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

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
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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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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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As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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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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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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The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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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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A reporter is no better than his source of 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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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
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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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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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