Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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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 Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.
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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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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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One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
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Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?
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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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