The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas Copy Share
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars. — William O. Douglas Copy Share
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator. — William O. Douglas Copy Share
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