"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
-William O. Douglas
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.“
-William O. Douglas
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"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
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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."
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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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