Quote #2
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
More from William O. Douglas
- The whole, though larger than any of its parts, does not necessarily obscure their separate identities.
- We have here the problem of bigness. Its lesson should by now have been burned into our memory by Brandeis. The Curse of Bigness shows how …
- Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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- We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.
- We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- All executive power - from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators - has the outward appearance of efficiency.