A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGThe written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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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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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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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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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.
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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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