Constitution Quote by William J. Brennan Download Open image “If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?” — William J. Brennan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Ifs Knows Planners Planning Policemen Urban Urban planning Why not
Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan. — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
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