I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.


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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundament...
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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom t...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you ar...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely tr...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and securi...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing do...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have be...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental f...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision t...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its en...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your igno...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a some...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbo...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in other...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something ...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
True religion . . . is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of ot...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you shou...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of o...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT
When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT