William O. Douglas

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

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 right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

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.

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.

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 degree of being sacred.

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.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

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

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.