William Douglas
William Douglas
Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1975.
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth16 October 1898
CityMaine, MN
William Douglas quotes about
concerned government
Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.
company competition continues country help large laws newspaper pick protect soon thinking time trend united
Every time you pick up the newspaper you read about one company merging with another company. Of course, we have laws to protect competition in the United States, but one can't help thinking that, if the trend continues the whole country will soon be merged into one large company.
aware both change however lest neither remains seemingly twilight victims
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
against alike attitudes dedicated dissent extremes faith living objects people poverty prejudices prepare produce protest regime rules submissive wealth witness
The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.
character continued democracy great opinion since speech true
The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the character of our democracy as of speech itself.