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First Quotes by William O. Douglas
- 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…
- 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,…
- The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In…
- 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 first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court,…
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