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Court Quotes by William O. Douglas
- One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
- It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
- The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote…
- The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not…
- The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court,…
- The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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