List of William O. Douglas Quotes

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William O. Douglas
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The second amendment reveals a profound principle of american government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
Military Men America
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.
Nature Exercise Cells
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the constitution.
Constitution Court Keepers
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.
Meaningful Home Thinking
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
Struggle Power Sacred
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. it does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. the more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
Support Inner Strength Atheism
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
Atheist Men Soul
Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
Stars Men Wind
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Freedom Liberty Libertarian
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
People Zoologist City Planning
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. when the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.
Meaningful Men Humanity
Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
Tree Grass Judicial
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