Church Quote by 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 useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.”

Robert Bork

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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.

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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…

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

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

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