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I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer’s disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Sandra Day O'Connor

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness – and there is no better way to do that than by example – their children will probably follow.
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Children Example Parent
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
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Democracy Healthy Judging
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
I’m not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody’s waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
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Justice Philosophy Waiting
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Majority might Politics Value
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
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Lawyers Professors Young
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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Eye Leadership Race
I think most people didn’t want to do court duty.
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Duty People Thinking Want
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Doubt Jurisprudence Liberty
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination …is an unfortunate reality…and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
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Government Persistence Reality
If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
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Christian Groups Religious
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
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Cases Constitution Law
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer’s disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
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Ability Alzheimer Heartbreaking Husband
I have always thought that while it’s wonderful to be the first to do something, you don’t want to be the last.
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First Last Something Wonderful
I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they’re not things that most citizens know much about.
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Country People Thinking
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
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Constitution Rights Talking

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