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Common sense often makes good law.

— William O. Douglas

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  2. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate d…
  3. But our society - unlike most in the world - presuppose that freedom and liberty are in frame of reference that makes the individual, not t…
  4. It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
  5. Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high wi…
  6. Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
  7. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly u…
  8. No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

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  • reasoning
  • wisdom

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