Justice Brennan Quotes

#1. Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.

#2. Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.

Mathew Staver

#3. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,

Charles Dickens

#4. If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

Tim Radford

#6. All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

William J. Brennan

#7. Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

William J. Brennan

#8. Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Dr. Seuss

#9. Anchor babies are "citizens" only because of a phony constitutional principle cooked up by Justice William Brennan in 1982. Just like abortion, sodomy, gay marriage, and unicorns - it's in the Constitution!

Ann Coulter

#10. I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

James Surowiecki

#11. The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Lilly Singh

#12. You know what I've never done at a sporting event? Boo. I don't get the whole idea of booing. You're booing someone because they just failed at something? Seriously? Do you know how hard it is to do what they're doing? That they're among the best in the world at what they do?

Stuart Scott

#13. You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Joy Harjo

#14. I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#15. A mere like this might be bottomless mud, like the one at home they used to drown the buggers in.

Harry Sidebottom

#16. Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

#17. If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Neal Brennan

#18. Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Taylor Swift

#19. The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Honore De Balzac

#20. There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Moshe Safdie

#21. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.

Joey Ramone

#22. The less I speak, the more I meditate.

Thomas Kyd