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Amendment Quotes by William O. Douglas
- It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
- The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
- Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day…
- One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
- Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the…
- The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be…
- The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers…
- The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to…
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