William Orville Douglas Famous Quotes
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
Common sense often makes good law.
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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.
William Orville Douglas Quotations
"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
Henry David Thoreau
"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."
George Gordon Byron
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."
Edward M Kennedy
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle
"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward."
Finley Peter Dunne
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
Baltasar Gracian
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Homer
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
John Cleese
"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it."
I Ching