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
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
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. — 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
We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — 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 when it… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
