William O. Douglas

Quotes

• “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything rema...”
• “The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ...”
• “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applau...”
• “Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness ...”
• “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that...”
• “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no s...”
• “Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.”
• “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”
• “The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.”
• “The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre”
• “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
• “Common sense often makes good law.”