A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
ANTONIN SCALIAFor 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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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
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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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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.’
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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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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To 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.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
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