English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

William O. Douglas Quotes

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.

William O. Douglas

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

...Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth... Neil Gaiman
Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty. Virginia Woolf
Ed Harris quote: "I like to act with people that know what they're doing."
I like to act with people that know what they're doing. Ed Harris
It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me. Fannie Flagg
Alison Moyet quote: "There has always been a feeling with people that they love my..."
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. Alison Moyet
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying."
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. Thomas Jefferson
Major Owens quote: "The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to..."
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged. Major Owens
Pierre Corneille quote: "Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille
It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship. Mark Twain
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades. John Olver
I opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain,And it dripped in my headAnd flowed into my brain,And all that I hear as I lie in my bedIs the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.I step very softly,I walk very slow,I can't do a handstand--I might overflow,So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head. Shel Silverstein
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in..."
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Michael Pollan quote: "Shake the hand that feeds you."
Shake the hand that feeds you. Michael Pollan
Guy de Maupassant quote: "I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in..."
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more. Guy de Maupassant
A child, more than all other gifts. That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." George Eliot