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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? - William O. Douglas
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. - William O. Douglas
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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. - William O. Douglas
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. - William O. Douglas
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. - William O. Douglas
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. - William O. Douglas
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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. - William O. Douglas
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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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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. - William O. Douglas
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. - William O. Douglas
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The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. - William O. Douglas
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We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. - William O. Douglas
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The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. - William O. Douglas
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At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections. - William O. Douglas
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As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness. - William O. Douglas
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - William O. Douglas
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Common sense often makes good law. - William O. Douglas
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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. - William O. Douglas
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