The great and invigorating influences in American life have been t

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think. – William O. Douglas

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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