“The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.”

— William O. Douglas

An Almanac of Liberty (1954), p. 238
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1898–1980

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