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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.


Douglas William Jerrold

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WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him towar...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Mountains have a decent influence on men. I have never met along the trails of the high mountains a ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The idea of using censors to bar thoughts of sex is dangerous. A person without sex thoughts is abno...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we ne...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of governme...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity a...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrine...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outliv...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victim...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degre...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS After an American has been in a totalitarian country for several months, he is greatly relieved when...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the m...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight w...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind toget...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous di...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corpora...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS stirs people to anger
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Every time you pick up the newspaper you read about one company merging with another company. Of cou...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and indep...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Const...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I can see you've done a lot of work, but you are off base here. If and when you get appointed to the...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, th...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Common sense often makes good law.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...
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