Quotes William O. Douglas

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any...

Common sense often makes good law....

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and ...

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when peo...

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offend...

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopef...

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use...

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protes...

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissive...

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge tha...

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of...

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmon...

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the...

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right...

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all a...

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre...

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

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Su...

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of l...

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We c...