Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
ANTONIN SCALIADevout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
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With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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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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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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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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