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Уильям Орвилл Дуглас было судья Верховного суда США.

✵ 16. Октябрь 1898 – 19. Январь 1980
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“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

William O. Douglas

Letter to Young Lawyers Section of the Washington State Bar Association (10 September 1976), The Douglas Letters : Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas (1987), edited by Melvin I. Urofsky and Philip E. Urofsky, p. 162
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“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”

William O. Douglas

A Living Bill of Rights (1961), p. 64
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“One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment, Potter.”

William O. Douglas

Statement to Justice Potter Stewart on the arrest of peacefully protesting Vietnam War veterans on steps of the Supreme Court, in The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎ (1981), p. 234
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“The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.”

William O. Douglas

An Almanac of Liberty (1954), p. 107
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“Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.”

William O. Douglas

United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
Judicial opinions

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

William O. Douglas

&quot;The One Un-American Act,&quot; Speech to the Author&#x27;s Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952) http://ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/foryoungpeople/theoneunamerican/oneunamerican.cfm <br class="br">Other speeches and writings

“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Judicial opinions

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

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422 (1956)
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“All executive power – from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators – has the outward appearance of efficiency.”

William O. Douglas

Concurring, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
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“The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.”

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)
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“The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.”

William O. Douglas

Interview with Time magazine (12 November 1973)
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“We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”

William O. Douglas

Writing for the court, Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952)
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“Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.”

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 101 (1951)
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“Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.”

William O. Douglas

The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (1980), p. 232
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“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, Public utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
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“The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.”

William O. Douglas

Dissenting, Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co., 417 U.S. 506, 526 (1974)
Judicial opinions

“I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.”

William O. Douglas

Remarks at conference sponsored by the American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute, Harriman, New York (February 17–19, 1967); reported in Judd L. Teller, ed., Government and the Democratic Process; A Symposium by American and Israeli Experts (1969), p. 16
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“That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law.”

William O. Douglas

Writing for the court, Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43 (1957)
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“It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.”

William O. Douglas

The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎ (1980), p. 3
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“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”

William O. Douglas

Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
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