William O. Douglas Quotes on Courts
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.