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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

From William O. Douglas

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

From William O. Douglas

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

From William O. Douglas

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

From William O. Douglas

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

From William O. Douglas

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

From William O. Douglas

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

From William O. Douglas

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

From William O. Douglas

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

From William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas

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