William O. Douglas Quotes - Page 6

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• The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Silence, Lips

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• Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Invention, Masters

  "United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 26, 1951.

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• Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

  William O. Douglas

  Anniversary, Together, Degrees

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

  William O. Douglas

  Loyalty, Decision, Political

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.

  William O. Douglas

  Thinking, Government, Organization

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• Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

  William O. Douglas

  Literature, Moral, Censorship

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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• The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.

  William O. Douglas

  Play, Giants

  "Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co., 417 U.S. 506". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 17, 1974.

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• We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

  William O. Douglas

  War, Power, Years

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• One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

  William O. Douglas

  History, Amendments, Court

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

  William O. Douglas

  Rights, Government, Essence

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