Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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• Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
• It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
• How dare you make my life a felony.
• (W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
• If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
• 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…
• We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
• Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
• The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this…
• In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called…
• Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries…
• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
• This chance will stand before you only once.
• Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
• 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…
• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.
• The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and…
• If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern…
• Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

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