Doe Quotes by William O. Douglas

9 Doe quotes by William O. Douglas

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Douglas’s legal mind often turned to nature’s subtleties, and here eight small collection shows how he framed the notion of a 'Doe' within broader concerns. It’s a concise window into his thoughtful, sometimes poetic, perspective.

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Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its…

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Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor…

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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of…

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We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do…

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As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change…

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The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.…

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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the…

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What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same…

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The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State…Otherwise the state and religion…

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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our…

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Common sense often makes good law.

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Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -…

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