William O. Douglas

“We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.”

“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.”

“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...”

“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”

“No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.”

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

“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.”

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

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must...”