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Law Quotes by William O. Douglas
- When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
- Common sense often makes a good law.
- 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…
- World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude…
- The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
- Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are…
- 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…
- Common sense often makes good law.
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