18 Quotations by William O. Douglas
- 1. Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, ...

- 2. As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight w ...

- 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degre ...

- 4. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others

- 5. Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have out-li ...

- 6. Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have out-li ...

- 7. Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

- 8. The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle t ...

- 9. The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bil ...

- 10. The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

- 11. The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who chal ...

- 12. The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

- 13. The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can ...

- 14. The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

- 15. We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

- 16. We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, olde ...

- 17. We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

- 18. When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts ...

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