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William O. Douglas

"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."

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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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"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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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
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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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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
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