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"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

"What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example."

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."

"Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."
Explore more quotes by William J. Brennan


"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."


"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."


"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."


"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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