Quotes from Justice William O. Douglas

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.