William O. Douglas

“ We are living in a society where one of the most important forms of property is government largesse which some call the 'new property.'1 The payrolls of government are but one aspect of that 'new property.' Defense contracts, highway contracts, and the other multifarious forms of contracts are another part. ”

“ The bureaucracy of modern government is not only slow, lumbering, and oppressive; it is omnipresent. It touches everyone's life at numerous points. It pries more and more into private affairs, breaking down the barriers that individuals erect to give them some insulation from the intrigues and harassments of modern life.13 Isolation is not a constitutional guarantee; but the sanctity of the sanctuary of the home is such-as marked and defined by the Fourth Amendment, McDonald v. ”

“ It may be that in some tenements one baby will do service to several women and call each one 'mom.' It may be that other frauds, less obvious, will be perpetrated. But if inspectors want to enter the precincts of the home against the wishes of the lady of the house, they must get a warrant. The need for exigent action as in cases of 'hot pursuit' is not present, for the lady will not disappear ”

“ Thee is not the slightest hint in See that the Government could condition a business license on the 'consent' of the licensee to the administrative searches we held violated the Fourth Amendment. It is a strange jurisprudence indeed which safeguards the businessman at his place of work from warrantless searches but will not do the same for a mother in her home. ”

“ Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 83 S.Ct. 1790, 10 L.Ed.2d 965, a State providing unemployment insurance required recipients to accept suitable employment when it became available or lost the benefits. An unemployed lady was offered a job requiring her to work Saturdays but she refused because she was a Seventh Day Adventist to whom Saturday was the Sabbath. ”