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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Danger
Not Afraid
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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Groups
Liberty
People
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Annoyed
Challenges
Docile
Finals
Quiet
Annoy
Challenge
Final Word
Seek
Softly
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Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Stars
Wind
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
America
Military
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Fear
History
Authority
Awe
Bows
Expected
Reverence
Speak
Since
Bow
Represent
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Persuasion
Use
Violence
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Freedom Of Speech
Practice
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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Ideas
Powerful
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Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Economic Globalization
Hands
People
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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.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Law
Secret
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Common Sense
Maturity
People
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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.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Political Revolution
Rights In America
Teaching
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Civilized
Decent
Good Friend
Landmarks
Struggle
Tyranny
Good Men Great
Amendment
Old Friend
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The Fifth 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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Friendship
Good Friend
Struggle
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Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Change
Facts
Ideas
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Audience
Cattle
Diseased
Free Speech
Speech
Yesterday
Applaud
Butter
Impure
Performance
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Power
Sacred
Struggle
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Decision
Emotional
Percent
Rational
Supplies
Thinking
Part
Constitutional
Level
Reasons
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Wisdom
Men
Liberty
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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.
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Journey
Nature
Adventure
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The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
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Government
Judging
Liberty
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Animal
Lemmings
Woodpeckers
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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
America
People
Thinking
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As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Fall
Night
Twilight
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Fields
Literature
People
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Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Civilization
Needs
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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.
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Law
Lips
Silence
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To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Journey
Nature
Men
Beach
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
History
Democracy
Yesterday
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Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Power
Desire
Office
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We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doe
Tactics
Today
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Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Believe
Real
Religious
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
City Planning
People
Zoologist
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If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Quality
Compelling Reason
Race
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The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Graduation
Academic Freedom
Essence
Freedom Of Speech
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Atheism
Exercise
Prudent
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.
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Nature
Cells
Exercise
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Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
People
Self
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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.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Atheism
Inner Strength
Support
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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.
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Different
Expression
Ideas
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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Exercise
Hands
Rights
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No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Abhorrent
Suggestions
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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Journey
Sleep
Spring
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Loyalty
Association
Causes
Decision
Harmony
Involved
Noble
Political
Projects
Purpose
Decisions
Bilateral
Commercial
Faiths
Prior
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Attitude
Expression
Fate
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Organization
Thinking
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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 / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
May
Violence
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Eight
Liberty
Writing
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The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Rights
Wall
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