The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
ANTONIN SCALIAIn 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.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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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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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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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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[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
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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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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
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