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William O. Douglas

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

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

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Donna Grant

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

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"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."

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"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."

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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."

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"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."

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"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."

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"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."

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"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."

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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being."
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"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."
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William O. Douglas
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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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?"
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
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"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."
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