Antonin Scalia Quotes

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
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.
As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
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.
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
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.
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.
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