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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.
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
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The association promotes a way of life, not causes a harmony in living, not political faiths a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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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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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
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Common sense often makes a good law.
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Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
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Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
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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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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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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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Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
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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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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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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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