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Government Quotes by William O. Douglas
- The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
- 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.
- Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why…
- 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…
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great…
- 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…
- The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
- These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have…
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
- 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…
- Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest…
- The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
- 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…
- The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But…
- The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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