William O. Douglas Quotes

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

William O. Douglas

Common sense often makes good law.

William O. Douglas

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William O. Douglas

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.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas