The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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An operatic voice is like no other.
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So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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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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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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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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I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
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