William O. Douglas Quotes About Privacy

Quotes about: Privacy

• We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

• The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

  William O. Douglas

  Taken, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

• The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

  William O. Douglas

  Home, Police, Mind

• 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.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

• The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Principles

  "Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, School, Rights

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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