How dare you make my life a felony.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNORIt 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.
More Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
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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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I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
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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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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
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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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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
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The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I’m not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.
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It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.
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I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.
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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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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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