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William Orville Douglas Quotes

«I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.»
«Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.»
«Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.»
«The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.»
«The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.»
«The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.»
«The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.»
«Common sense often makes good law.»
Author: William Orville Douglas | About: Common sense | Keywords: common law
«We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.»
«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 us.»

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