We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. William O. Douglas More Quotes by William O. Douglas More Quotes From William O. Douglas The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. William O. Douglas moral-leadership court ability When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live. William O. Douglas not-afraid danger men Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. William O. Douglas hiking exercise rivers Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. William O. Douglas real religious may The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual. William O. Douglas police mind home A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness. William O. Douglas wilderness daggers heart The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe. William O. Douglas church doe believe The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars. William O. Douglas corporations dollars earth Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too. William O. Douglas judicial grass tree We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive. William O. Douglas order needs thinking A reporter is no better than his source of information. William O. Douglas reporters information source Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. William O. Douglas black race white Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas degrees anniversary together The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself. William O. Douglas lips silence law 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. William O. Douglas political loyalty decision Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires. William O. Douglas government organization thinking We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well. William O. Douglas power war years There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits. William O. Douglas color race white Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. William O. Douglas invention masters men The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs. William O. Douglas freedom-of-speech principles people
