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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.


J. William Fulbright

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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 ...
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