William O. Douglas Quotes

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his idea...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degre...

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outliv...

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

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

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...

Common sense often makes good law.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed ...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one ...