Our Friends William O Douglas Quotes
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~ William O. Douglas Quote
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
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 Quote
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
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 spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
~ William O. Douglas Quote
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
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 predilections.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
~ William O. Douglas Quote
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
~ William O. Douglas Quote