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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."

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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."

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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

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"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
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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."
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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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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
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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 critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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