{"author":"William O. Douglas","author_id":"William+O.+Douglas","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow. Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. When the light of publicity may reach any student, any teacher, inquiry will be discouraged. The books and pamphlets that are critical of the administration, that preach an unpopular policy in domestic or foreign affairs, that are in disrepute in the orthodox school of thought will be suspect and subject to investigation. The press and its readers will pay a heavy price in harassment. But that will be minor in comparison with the menace of the shadow which government will cast over literature that does not follow the dominant party line. If the lady from Toledo can be required to disclose what she read yesterday and what she will read tomorrow, fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes of the land. Through the harassment of hearings, investigations, reports, and subpoenas government will hold a club over speech and over the p.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["communication","control","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-thought","government","liberty","privacy","repression","surveillance","thought-police"],"id":33211,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"Common sense often makes good law.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["good","law","common sense "],"id":70523,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["marriage","together","better "],"id":70589,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["constitution","people","off "],"id":138084,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["conservatism","free-society","government"],"id":156362,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from govern.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["encroachment","freedom","government","privacy","surveillance"],"id":167615,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["judge","back","fbi "],"id":187017,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["new","protest","amendment "],"id":211946,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"Security can only be achieved through constant change  through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["security"],"id":219259,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["freedom","privacy","solitude"],"id":253077,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}