Engaged Quotes by Robert Bork

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering…

— Robert Bork

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They…

— Robert Bork

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

— Robert Bork

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

— Robert Bork

“Now, however, the educational system has become the weapon of choice for modern liberals in their project of dismantling American culture.”

— Robert Bork

When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put…

— Robert Bork

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about…

— Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

— Robert Bork

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality…

— Robert Bork

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It…

— Robert Bork

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically…

— Robert Bork