"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
-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.“
-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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"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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"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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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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