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Only Quotes by William O. Douglas
- My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
- The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on…
- To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he…
- I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance…
- Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures,…
- 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…
- I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There…
- The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
- Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with…
- 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…
- Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
- A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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