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Top 21 William O. Douglas Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”

― William O. Douglas

“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.”

― William O. Douglas

“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”

― William O. Douglas

“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

“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”

― William O. Douglas

“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

“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”

― William O. Douglas

“Common sense often makes good law.”

― William O. Douglas

“Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.”

― William O. Douglas

“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

“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

“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

“We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”

― William O. Douglas

“The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.”

― William O. Douglas

“The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.”

― William O. Douglas

“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

“It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.”

― William O. Douglas

“We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.”

― William O. Douglas

“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.”

― William O. Douglas

“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

“No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.”

― William O. Douglas

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