02/09/1977
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"William O. Douglas was a lionlike defender of individual liberty."
"The essential scheme of our Constitution and Bill of Rights was to take Government off the backs of people."
"I am ordering that the flag of our country be flown at halfstaff on all installations of the United States Government."
"Justice Douglas loved the outdoors with the same intensity he brought to his love of political liberty."