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William J. Brennan Quotes
Page 1 of 1William J. Brennan
April 25, 1906 - July 27, 1997
Nationality: American
Category: Judge
Subcategory: American Judge
|  Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. | | 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. | | We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. | | Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. | | If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. | | The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. | | 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. |
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