Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea?… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ.… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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