Quote #36
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
More from William O. Douglas
- Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
- The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or socia…
- No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
- The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
- Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
- The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of…
- It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
- The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of…