The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times where there are no secrets from government.William Douglas
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
William Douglas
After an American has been in a totalitarian country for several months, he is greatly relieved when he reaches home. He feels that bonds have been released and that he is free. He can speak above a whisper, and he walks relaxed and unguarded as though he were no longer being followed. After a recent trip I said to a neighbor, It's wonderful to be back in a nation where even a riot may be tolerated.
William Douglas
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William Douglas
I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and 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.
William Douglas
I sat some minutes, lost in my thoughts of the beauty of the place.
William Douglas
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