“A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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.

Dissents speak to a future age.

One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.