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The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
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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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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Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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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 day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William O. Douglas
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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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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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 conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
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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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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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Violence has no constitutional sanction and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
William O. Douglas
The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
William O. Douglas
