"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

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No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

— William J. Brennan