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William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
William J. Brennan, Jr.
American
Judge
Born:
Apr 25
,
1906
Died:
Jul 24
,
1997
Clause
Congress
Freedom
Less
Only
Rights
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Attitude
Jobs
Only
Attitudes
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Law
Changes
Around
Cannot
Social
Social Changes
Aside
Stand
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.
Home
Family
World
Marketplace
Solely
Destined
Only
Longer
Ideas
Female
Male
Rearing
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.
Confession
Embodied
Clause
Mentally
Involuntary
Fairness
Due
Person
Process
Use
Notion
Ill
Fundamental
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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Death
Pain
Enormity
Finality
Severe
Punishment
More
Only
Purpose
Unusual
Unusually
Effectively
Than
Less
Serve
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Class
Respect
Decision
Congress
Materials
His
Provides
Legitimate
Proceed
Basis
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.
Privacy
Free
Single
Married
Intrusion
Individual
Unwarranted
Anything
Means
Right
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Constitution
Way
Only
Read
American
Current
Justices
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Freedom
Man
Rights
Dignity
Will
Never
Quest
End
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Time
History
Words
Interpretation
Intervening
Our
Framing
Our Time
Must
Look
Ultimate
Question
Text
The History Of
Mean
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