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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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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Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
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We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.
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The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
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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 man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
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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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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times where there are no secrets from government.
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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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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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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 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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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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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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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