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Danh ngôn của William O. Douglas (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Common sense often makes good law.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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.