Quotes by William O. Douglas

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."

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"Common sense often makes good law."

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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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"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 are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being."

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