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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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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…
— Annie Besant
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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
— Holbrook Jackson
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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least…
— Stephen King
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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the…
— Rikki Ducornet
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Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
— Edward Abbey
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
— H. L. Mencken
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
— John Ruskin
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…
— Stephen Leacock
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