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Top 17 William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress’s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Use of a mentally ill person’s involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

“The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.”

― William J. Brennan, Jr.

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