Famous 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 on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by William O. Douglas

• "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."

• "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

• "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."

• "The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

• "One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."