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William J. Brennan has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh…
— Aberjhani
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The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry…
— Herbert Turnbull
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When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use…
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
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I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does…
— Jimi Hendrix
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Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much…
— Frederick Lenz
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
— Aeschylus
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
— Taylor Kitsch
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of…
— John Ruskin
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On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.
— Leopold Stokowski
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You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights…
— William J. Brennan
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting…
— Dan Quayle
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But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they…
— John Flanagan
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