Famous Quotes

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."

William O. Douglas on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

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."