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Us Quotes by William O. Douglas
- It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
- At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our…
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great…
- This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,…
- Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- 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…
- Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
- Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat…
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