William O. Douglas Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von William O. Douglas:

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

William O. Douglas

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

William O. Douglas

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

William O. Douglas

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

William O. Douglas

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

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

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

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

Common sense often makes good law.

William O. Douglas

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

William O. Douglas

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

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

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

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

William O. Douglas