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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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
Common sense often makes good law.
If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
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.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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.
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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