Antonin Scalia Quotes
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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
— Antonin Scalia
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
— Antonin Scalia
People look at rights as if they were muscles - the more you exercise them, the better they get.
— Antonin Scalia
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools ... and He has not been disappointed.
— Antonin Scalia
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
— Antonin Scalia
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carryout a death sentence properly reached. — Antonin Scalia
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.
— Antonin Scalia
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations ... until they were all litigated out.
— Antonin Scalia
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
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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
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.
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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
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When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
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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?
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
— Antonin Scalia
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.
— Antonin Scalia
For in order for capitalism to work in order for it to produce a good and a stable society
the traditional Christian virtues are essential. — Antonin Scalia
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.
— Antonin Scalia
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
— Antonin Scalia
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
— Antonin Scalia
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
— Antonin Scalia
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
— Antonin Scalia
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
— Antonin Scalia
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".
— Antonin Scalia
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
— Antonin Scalia
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
— Antonin Scalia
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[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
— Antonin Scalia
Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.
— Antonin Scalia
Classroom Activities1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia! — Jon Stewart
Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government.
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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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