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…

— Robert Bork

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

— Robert Bork

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert Bork

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

— Robert Bork

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

— Robert Bork

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

— Robert Bork

The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really…

— Robert Bork

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the…

— Robert Bork

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was…

— Robert Bork

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy,…

— Robert Bork

If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the…

— Robert Bork

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

— Robert Bork

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

— Robert Bork

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

— Robert Bork

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as…

— Robert Bork

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

— Robert Bork

Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,…

— Robert Bork

Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not…

— Robert Bork

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

— Robert Bork