Knows Quotes by William O. Douglas

9 Knows quotes by William O. Douglas

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William O. Douglas’s eight statements on knowing are measured and principled, giving a short but clear view of his judicial perspective.

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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more…

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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die,…

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To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing…

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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest,

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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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We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of…

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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator.…

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Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive…

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Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know…

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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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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…

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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…

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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out…

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

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A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it…

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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…

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To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which…

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of…

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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

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