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3 William O. Douglas Quotes on Courts

William O. Douglas quotes on courts

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

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