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William J. Brennan, Jr.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. men
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. freedom
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. men
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. knowledge
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. sex
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. men
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. freedom
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. war
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. family
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. people
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. purpose
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. change
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. life
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
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
— William J. Brennan, Jr. justice
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. pain
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. respect
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
— William J Brennan Jr men

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