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From Quotes by William O. Douglas
- Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the…
- We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
- I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the…
- 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.…
- Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected…
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner…
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