William O. Douglas Quotes About Economy

• Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

  William O. Douglas

  Hands, People, Economic Globalization

  "United States v. Columbia Steel Co., 334 U.S. 495". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 7, 1948.

• The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

  William O. Douglas

  Wisdom, Men, Liberty

• We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

  William O. Douglas

  War, Power, Years

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