Robert Bork Quotes
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe…
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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 we…
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it…
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An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of…
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
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As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we…
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No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
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One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young…
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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept
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The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution
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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to…
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I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job.…
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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
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Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,…
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
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The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias,…
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There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by…
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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 the…
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of…
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