Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingIn other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion.William O. DouglasGrisworld v. Connecticut · 1965★ 5.2
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance… Various guarantees create zones of privacy.William O. DouglasGrisworld v. Connecticut · 1965★ 4.3
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote.William O. DouglasGray v. Sanders · 1963★ 4.2
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. It is our way of escape from the use of torture.William O. Douglas1954★ 3.4