Quotes from William Orville Douglas

Common sense often makes good law.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

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

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

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