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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
~ Antonin Scalia
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
~ Antonin Scalia
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
~ Antonin Scalia
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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 should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Experience
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
~ Antonin Scalia
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Big Family
Child
Coming
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First
First Child
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Like
Lot
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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 not be the basis for often will.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
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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 all.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Nothing New
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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
~ Antonin Scalia
Between
Halfway
Interpretation
Like
Mean
Means
Moderate
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Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
~ Antonin Scalia
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State
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
~ Antonin Scalia
Interpreted
Lawyers
Nine
Why
World
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Different
Having
Out
Regulations
States
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A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
~ Antonin Scalia
Dissent
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Honest
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A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
~ Antonin Scalia
Enemies
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Good Man
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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.
~ Antonin Scalia
Appropriate
Approve
Before
Censure
Desire
Disapprove
Driven
Either
Expand
General
General Rule
Heap
Interpretation
Judges
Legislative
Lest
Matter
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Personally
Policy
Praise
Rule
Them
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As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Death Penalty
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Marriage
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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Good
Good Person
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Right
Right Direction
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Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Expression
Flag
Form
Government
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Idea
Just
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Oral
Speech
Symbol
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By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Arms
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Decency
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Definition
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Human
Law
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