4 William O. Douglas Quotes on Privacy

William O. Douglas quotes on privacy

8. The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

27. Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

40. The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.

43. We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.