In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
ANTONIN SCALIAThe attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
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The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
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For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.
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The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.
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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.
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