Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in offi… - William O. Douglas

We who come this way are merely short-term tenants. Our power in wilderness terms is only the power to destroy, not to create. Those who oppose wilderness values today may have sons and daughters who will honor wilderness values tomorrow. Our responsibility as life tenants is to make certain that there are wilderness values to honor after we have gone.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

I believe it was Charles Adams who described our upside down welfare state as ‘socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.’ The great welfare scandal of the age concerns the dole we give rich people.