Alternatives Quote by Robert Bork

“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, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.”

Robert Bork

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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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