Public Speech Quotes by William O. Douglas

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• It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy…
• The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too…
• The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…
• Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from…
• Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has…
• When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters…
• Common sense often makes a good law.
• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate…
• We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of…
• My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
• I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another…
• The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go…

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