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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

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. — Jack Scalia

When Scalia dissents, he pours gasoline on the majority, lights a match, and stomps on the ashes. — Irin Carmon

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools ... and He has not been disappointed. — Antonin Scalia

You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles. — Jack 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 carry
out 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

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — 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? — Antonin Scalia

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia

The wise do not investigate such silliness. — Antonin Scalia

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections. — Antonin Scalia

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. — Antonin Scalia

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning. — Antonin Scalia

[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

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

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American. — Antonin Scalia

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — 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

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. — Antonin Scalia

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

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

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. — Jack 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

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia

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

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers? — Antonin Scalia

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change. — Antonin Scalia

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. — Jack Scalia

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. — Antonin Scalia

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. — Antonin Scalia

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

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. — Jack Scalia

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. — Antonin Scalia

But this country is a great country and will always rebound. — Jack 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

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom. — Antonin Scalia

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years. — Antonin Scalia

Classroom Activities
1. 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. — Antonin Scalia

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! — Antonin Scalia

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom. — Antonin Scalia