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"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
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"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies."
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"All government, of course, is against liberty."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
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"Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
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"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
Woman


"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."
American


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
Court


"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."
Life


"The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue."
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"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
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"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."
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"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
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"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."
History
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