Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
ANTONIN SCALIAWords no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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.
ANTONIN SCALIAInterior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
ANTONIN SCALIAI 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.
ANTONIN SCALIAA law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
ANTONIN SCALIA[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
ANTONIN SCALIATo be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
ANTONIN SCALIAYou could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
ANTONIN SCALIAThe 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.
ANTONIN SCALIA[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.
ANTONIN SCALIAIf we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
ANTONIN SCALIACertainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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.
ANTONIN SCALIAThis is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
ANTONIN SCALIAWhy in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
ANTONIN SCALIAThe 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.’
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