Life Sustains Quotes by William O. Douglas

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The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who…

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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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