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More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Conscience
Form
Important
Obligation
Your Important More
Correctly
Follow
Least
Prior
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Essentials
Order
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Constitution
Criminality
Nothing New
Order
Political
Privacy
Protect
Realization
Few
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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.
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Cost Benefit Analysis
Doctrine
Taj Mahal
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Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Court
Fullness
Losing
Majority
Winning
Objective
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We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Forbidden
Punishment
Torture
Unusual
Cruel
Says
Speaks
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It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Environmental
Health
Appropriate
Benefits
Billions
Dollars
Economic
Mind
Rational
Return
Billions Of Dollars
Few
Impose
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Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Mars
Somebody
Star
Follow
Head
Indeed
North
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
Converting
Court
Hippie
Race
Rights
Sex
Basis
Civil
Guarantee
Title
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The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Funding
Worthwhile
Totally
Choice
Eliminate
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To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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Easter
Morning
Scary
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The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
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Attitude
Gun
People
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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
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Purpose
Rights
Second Amendment
Unlimited
Amendment
Carry
Weapon
Manner
Second
Whatsoever
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Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Melting
Scary
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Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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Blow
Bombs
Faces
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[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.
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Done
Scary
Should
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The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'
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Men
Children
Rights
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Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Court
Federal Government
Protect
Basically
Federal
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Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Accepting
Institutions
Not Perfect
Perfect
Possibility
Cannot
Courts
Criminal
Juries
Mistakenly
Punished
System
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And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Stupid
Unconstitutional
Immensely
Yes
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Marriage
Arms
Decency
Declaring
Enemy
Majority
Traditional
Anyone
Challenger
Definition
Human
Opposed
Well
Restricting
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
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To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
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Christian
Taken
Views
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Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
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Credit
Law
Should Have
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It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Important
Self
Would Be
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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Courage
Wisdom
Christ
Contempt
Sophisticated
Stupidity
Today
World
Any
Brought
Fools
Message
Regarded
Suffer
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The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
People
Purpose
Together
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I watched 'The Sopranos,' I saw a couple of episodes of 'Mad Men.' I loved 'Seinfeld.' In fact, I got some CDs of 'Seinfeld.' 'Seinfeld' was hilarious. Oh, boy. The Nazi soup kitchen? 'No soup for you!'
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hilarious
Cds
Couple
Episodes
Mad
Mad Men
Sopranos
Boy
Oh
Watched
Loved
Fact
Saw
In Fact
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
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Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Court Judges
Ideas
Law
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If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Lazy
Right Direction
Less
Cause
Choose
Direction
Dynamic
Error
Headed
Indeed
Slower
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[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Important
Law
Today
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Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hippie
Mean
Thinking
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But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Death Penalty
Democratic
Notion
Provision
Taken
Anti
Choice
Penalty
Pro
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I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Opposing
Argue
Loved
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If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Mindless
Unconstitutional
Absolutely
Required
Utterly
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The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Capital Punishment
Determined
Horrible
Punishment
Risk
American People
Capital
Crimes
Derived
Error
Perhaps
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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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Fighting
Mean
Thinking
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The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
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Abortion
Giving
Years
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Leadership
War
Reality
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If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Court Judges
Faithful
Judging
Time Good Always
Yourself
Time Good Yourself
Time Good Doing
Judge
Doing
Conclusions
Wrong
Fact
Reach
Resign
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Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Intelligence
Learning
Character
Teaching
Years
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Congress
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Corrupt
Washington
Resides
Tends
Wants
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Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.
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Groups
Mean
Scary
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[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Rights
Rooms
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I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Careless
Internet
Nervous
Used
Sure
Good Culture People
Cause
Certainly
Civic
Writers
Largely
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I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Good
Another Day
Bad Ideas
Good People
Ideas
People
Two
Want
Job
Good People Good People
Very
Good Day People
Good Day Bad
Another
Judge
Get
Attack
Bad
Day
Day Job
Gotta
Least
Panel
Some
Separate
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Abolish
Constitution
Death Penalty
Homosexual
Permit
Conduct
Occurs
Penalty
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
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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 / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Burning
Speech
Unjust
Written
Expresses
Flag
Oral
Symbol
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The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Society
Adopted
Constitution
Court
Mean
Ought
Today
Living
Apply
Prefer
Less
Call
Dead
Current
Enduring
Society Dead Living
Interpret
Thinks
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There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Texas
University
Benefit
Contend
Opposed
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Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Usual
Yield
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