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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
Antonin Scalia
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Antonin Scalia
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: March 11
Died: 2016
Died: February 13
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Trenton
New Jersey
Antonin Gregory Scalia
Scalia
Antonin G. Scalia
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Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.
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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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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.
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
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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?
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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.
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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.
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Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.
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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.
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Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.
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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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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.
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Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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.
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