The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGPeople who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
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We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word feminism, because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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I’m not very good at promotion.
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