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Common sense often makes good law.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas

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

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.

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.

William O. Douglas

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

William O. Douglas