William J. Brennan, Jr. quote: "Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause."

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as...
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.

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation an...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease ar...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment whe...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

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.

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.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.

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.

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.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill o...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

The momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character ...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
WILLIAM BRENNAN

Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them...we know that if we treat o...
J. MARRIOT JR.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

You know, I was gonna get sick or I was gonna get injured or something. The only choice I had, the o...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecess...
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each ev...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than th...
WILLIAM TOBY JR.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will a...
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

Donald Gray expre...
BRENNAN MANNING

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took hi...
BRENNAN MANNING

Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into...
M.L. BRENNAN

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is ...
BRENNAN MANNING

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with th...
BRENNAN MANNING

I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptur...
BRENNAN MANNING

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
BRENNAN MANNING

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals,...
BRENNAN MANNING

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is...
BRENNAN MANNING

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we ...
BRENNAN MANNING

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...
BRENNAN MANNING

I think most of the choke points stayed pretty clear this time around (in yesterday's rains). We kno...
BILL BRENNAN

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the compu...
BILL BRENNAN

They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps...
BILL BRENNAN

We are working with the Honolulu Police Department and the facility of building maintenance. We will...
BILL BRENNAN

He still believes that holds out hope for residents who don't plan to sell their homes.
BILL BRENNAN

The search is under way.
BILL BRENNAN

No decisions have yet been made to put any of those properties up for sale.
BILL BRENNAN

We'll continue to watch the water quality and hope the source of the bacteria is determined and adju...
BILL BRENNAN

The feeling from those guys who work this stuff is that this will work. At midday (today) we hope to...
BILL BRENNAN

We've trimmed back some of the landscaping along both sides of the building so would-be burglars cou...
BILL BRENNAN

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
BRENNAN MANNING

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with the...
BRENNAN MANNING

Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity a...
BRENNAN MANNING

Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side.
BRIAN BRENNAN

He coached me in AAU basketball as a kid. He missed maybe one of my games that I can think of. He wa...
BRIAN BRENNAN

As a kid, it was awesome to see him. He'd never scream, just watch the game and talk to you later ab...
BRIAN BRENNAN

He taught us all how to compete.
BRIAN BRENNAN

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investor...
BRIAN BRENNAN

It's surreal feeling, walking in the parade of champions. It was just a phenomenal experience. It de...
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I felt great going into that match. I thought I wrestled the best match I could. He's a pretty good....
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I think just having more mat time has helped me. You're always in a match so you just can never give...
BRENNAN WHITMAN

I've got to thank my doctor, Dr. Monty Wilburn, because without him I would not have been able to co...
BRENNAN WHITMAN

But, if we're going to lose, we lost the way you want to lose. I mean, they left their hearts out th...
BRENNAN TORGERSON

We've got to be able to play at a high level for an entire game. And I feel like we showed what we'r...
BRENNAN TORGERSON

We had some awful good looks at the basket, but they just didn't go in. And, we didn't shoot free th...
BRENNAN TORGERSON

I don't know if it was a sense of urgency. I don't know what it was. But we finally start playing li...
BRENNAN TORGERSON

They're going to line up and try to pound us. That's the kind of challenge we like.
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

Having [Brooks] there right behind me literally on the field is a great feeling. You know you can co...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

I don't think we were necessarily tested for our style against Western Michigan because of all those...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

When you end up on a bad note, it motivates you.
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

He's learning how to control that big body of his. It's scary that he's only a freshman.
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

We weren't going to get to their quarterback, so it became all about getting our hands up in his fac...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

Two gap is not an easy thing and it's not a sexy thing either. But for the hard-nosed guy, it's perf...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

We know they're familiar with this game and we know they're going to run the ball as much as possibl...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

He definitely doesn't get as much recognition as I think he should. I go against some of the best of...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

They're a physical team. They don't do a lot of jazz and all that stuff. They run the ball right at ...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT

I'm not so sure they'd help much in a night game, but I have looked at stadium lights with them in, ...
BRENNAN GARR

Obviously, they didn't help enough today.
BRENNAN GARR

They work, at least for me they do. The ball seems a lot brighter to me.
BRENNAN GARR

Hitting is very important to me, so I'm not one that likes to sit and watch. I did that one year whe...
BRENNAN GARR

I really felt confident throwing my slider today. The mindset of a pitcher is to come in and be in c...
BRENNAN GARR

You look at the lights, and it seems like everything is green, and then it turns to a burnt orange. ...
BRENNAN GARR

I get a lot of stares, especially when you shake hands after a game. And I don't take them out when ...
BRENNAN GARR

He still has the motivation to do what he's doing. Our success this year was a slap in the face to a...
BRENNAN COAKLEY

I believe I was a part of it because I was there every day. It was just a great feeling. We were dow...
BRENNAN COAKLEY

The knee that I hurt is more flexible than my left knee. It's still kind of numb on the outside, but...
BRENNAN COAKLEY

It would've been a huge deal.
BRENNAN COAKLEY

When I first did it, coach Paterno talked to me about it and made sure that mentally I was OK.
BRENNAN COAKLEY

His backstroke was a picture-perfect race. He's typically just as strong in the back half of the rac...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

He's got a lot more speed in him than that. He's not fully rested and he's not shaved down. I feel h...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

They swam extremely well in all our relays. I'm extremely pleased with the relays.
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

We are very pleased with the way Ben closed out his conference career. Ben has always been an extrem...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND

We are progressing. I am excited about the fact that we are improving every match. What else can you...
BRENNAN BROWN

I think it will be a very competitive regional because not much separates the one, two, three and fo...
BRENNAN BROWN

It was exciting. I know the girls have worked extraordinarily hard this year and I knew that they wo...
BRENNAN BROWN

It came down to who is going to play the big points better. Our girls found a way to elevate their p...
BRENNAN BROWN

There will be a number of teams that will bring very good competition,
BRENNAN BROWN

I am encouraged, ... We had an excellent tournament. We still have a lot of work to do, but there ar...
BRENNAN BROWN

I haven't slept much in the past few days because I think we are all pretty excited to get out there...
BRENNAN BROWN

It was a lot of fun. There were a number of top ranked teams there.
BRENNAN BROWN

Marlon Leone has been a rock. He has improved greatly from a year ago. He is our best player and our...
BRENNAN BROWN

Our No.1 doubles team is a team all our other doubles teams look up to. They are playing at a very h...
BRENNAN BROWN

If Brian Bilbray had an ounce of integrity, he would call for this ad to be taken off the air. What ...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has de...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

People all across the country realize this is going to be a hard-fought and very close election. Gov...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

We certainly want to make sure that we have a complete profile, so we know who our opponents are. Bu...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

It's more confirmation that Francine is running against a group of career politicians and millionair...
BRENNAN BILBERRY

I'd say we're right around 40 players. We got a good response, and hope to have a big announcement i...
BOB BRENNAN

A neighbor called them and told them their house was on fire.
BOB BRENNAN

One of the things I'll ask for in the future is that we have a deeper (contact) tree on the next of ...
BOB BRENNAN

No farmers can buy here anymore. And I don't know how young people can buy a piece of land and build...
BOB BRENNAN

It's horrible -- the worst fears ... something we can't control.
BOB BRENNAN

[But all the elaborate measures could not prevent the explosion.] It's horrible -- the worst fears ....
BOB BRENNAN

You have to use your mind instead of gears.
BOB BRENNAN

This program will allow all our customers, including our low-income customers, to enjoy the benefits...
BOB BRENNAN

A few of those wagons, if I had a place to move them to I would, but if I start saving stuff I'd hav...
BOB BRENNAN

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
BRENNAN MANNING

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
BRENNAN MANNING

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal o...
BRENNAN MANNING

A blind man sees not with his eyes, but with his heart. A deaf man hears with his soul and mind, not...
BRENNAN MASTOUS

At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested ...
MARIE BRENNAN

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about tryin...
BRENNAN MANNING

I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you sta...
MARIE BRENNAN

The Importance of Being Foolish; How to Think Like Jesus
BRENNAN MANNING

You get a great perspective on the way the U.S. is perceived in other countries. I think everyone sh...
CHRIS BRENNAN

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting...
BRENNAN MANNING

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about you...
BRENNAN MANNING

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with th...
BRENNAN MANNING

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illu...
BRENNAN MANNING

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or ...
BRENNAN MANNING

Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on th...
JOHN BRENNAN

Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken.
JOHN BRENNAN

We don't know the cause of death, but there was a knocked-over propane lantern in the tent, which wa...
DAVE BRENNAN

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - ...
BRENNAN MANNING

We needed reassurance. I needed reassurance.
JACK BRENNAN

We were so close in some of those games that we easily could have been 17-3 at the end of the season...
JOE BRENNAN

It was very similar to the game we had last week. We got a big lead and they came back hard. They're...
JOE BRENNAN

They're a good team, a scrappy team. They always find a way to get back in games. Their hustle and s...
JOE BRENNAN

We talked about it before the game. If we could come out and shoot the ball well, that's a real key ...
JOE BRENNAN

Someone might want to buy a special bottle to commemorate an occasion. Or someone might want to roll...
TED BRENNAN

Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretext...
BRENNAN MANNING

He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufactu...
BRENNAN MANNING

The God of the legalistic Christian, on the other hand, is often unpredictable, erratic, and capable...
BRENNAN MANNING

Nowhere in the New Testament is the privileged position of turkeys, nobodies, and marginal people on...
BRENNAN MANNING

One thing we do know: We don’t comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

the real dichotomy in the Christian community today is not between conservatives and liberals or cre...
BRENNAN MANNING

If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t...
BRENNAN MANNING

The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting ...
BRENNAN MANNING

Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav...
BRENNAN MANNING

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
BRENNAN MANNING

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...
BRENNAN MANNING

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio...
BRENNAN MANNING

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman...
BRENNAN MANNING

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je...
BRENNAN MANNING

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...
BRENNAN MANNING

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou...
BRENNAN MANNING

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo...
BRENNAN MANNING

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...
BRENNAN MANNING

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...
BRENNAN MANNING

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...
BRENNAN MANNING

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God...
BRENNAN MANNING

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak...
BRENNAN MANNING

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...
BRENNAN MANNING

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with...
BRENNAN MANNING

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin...
BRENNAN MANNING

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’...
BRENNAN MANNING

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...
BRENNAN MANNING

We're looking forward to another good season.
BARBARA BRENNAN

We've talked about it,
BARBARA BRENNAN

We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy...
BARBARA BRENNAN

He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w...
RICH BRENNAN

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb...
MARIE BRENNAN

Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...
BRENNAN MANNING

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
BRENNAN MANNING

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...
BRENNAN MANNING

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

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