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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."

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Vera Miles

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Vera Miles

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

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Vera Miles

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

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Vera Miles

"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."

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Vera Miles

"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies."

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Vera Miles

"All government, of course, is against liberty."

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Vera Miles

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Vera Miles

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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Vera Miles

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

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Vera Miles

"Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"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."

History

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"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."

Family

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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."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"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."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans."

American

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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."

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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."

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
"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."

Decision

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