"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
-William O. Douglas
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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.“
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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
-William O. Douglas
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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"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
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
-Jim Morrison
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-Ronald Reagan
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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