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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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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Trade Unionist
University Teacher
William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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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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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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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 court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
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The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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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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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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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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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
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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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