Antonin Scalia Quotes

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• When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
• 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…
• With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of…
• A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
• It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the…
• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them…
• This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
• If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
• I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed…
• For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues…
• Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
• If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like…
• Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either…
• 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…
• I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
• The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the…
• 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…
• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will…
• In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
• If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We…

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