William O. Douglas Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Life: October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980
Birthday: October 16
Death: January 19
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
source: "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
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