The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the
government off the backs of the people.
-- Justice William O. Douglas
government off the backs of the people.
-- Justice William O. Douglas
Related:
- Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of
a nation.
-- William O. Dougla... - You may get the Government off the backs of the people, but they
will soon demand to be remounted.
-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981... - The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Dougla
- The worst provincialism of which America can be guilty is the
provincialism of prejudice, racial prejudice, prejudice against new and
challenging ideas.
-- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)... - We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.... - 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.... - There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have
been in a position of trying to stop them.
With all the wealth of America, with all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive....
