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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
— William J. Brennan
If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic,
— Maria Rodale
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
— William J. Brennan
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
— William J. Brennan
There is no such thing as a false idea.
— William J. Brennan
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
— William J. Brennan
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
A sign warned her to keep a lookout for river otters, osprey - what the heck were osprey? - and bald eagles.
— Jill Shalvis
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery
— D.H. Lawrence
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.
I want to love you and be loved by you.
— Melissa Foster
Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
— William J. Brennan
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
— William J. Brennan
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
— William J. Brennan
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.
— William J. Brennan
The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
— William J. Brennan
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.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
— Cameron Diaz
The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
— William J. Brennan
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, the usual. Just some idiots jealous of me being married to the hottest human around.
— Richelle Mead
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangleswhich is the way they help me. — William J. Brennan