William J. Brennan Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
William J. Brennan Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
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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.
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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
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