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Freedom Quotes by William O. Douglas
- Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
- Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
- Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then…
- This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,…
- The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every…
- We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs.…
- 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 liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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