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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."
"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."
"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
"We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity."
"A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation."
"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."
"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."
Explore more quotes by William J. Brennan
"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
"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."
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
"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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