“ These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may… William O. Douglas
“ The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government. William O. Douglas
“ Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the should… William O. Douglas
“ We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from govern William O. Douglas
“ One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. William O. Douglas
“ The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. William O. Douglas
“ Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea William O. Douglas
“ 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. William O. Douglas
“ Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. William O. Douglas
“ Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William O. Douglas
“ 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 twilight that we all must be most awa… William O. Douglas
