Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.” ~ Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court JusticeSource: Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952)