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“Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Writing #Suggestions #Opinion
“If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Feelings #Moral #Murder
“When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Couple #Gay #Amendments
“The body of scientific evidence supporting creation science is as strong as that supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger.... The evidence for evolution is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a scientific fact, since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory. Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or guess.... It is a very bad guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it could accurately be termed a myth.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Strong #Believe #Religion
“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

#Pain #Causes #Execution
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Innocence #Reason #Factual
“A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Mean #Rights #Liberty
“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

#Believe #Gun #Hands
“With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Religious #Atheist #Practice
“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Mean #Interpretation #Really Mean
“I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Silly #Sake #Conservative
“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

#Teaching #Character #Years
“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.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Mean #Scary #Groups
“[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.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Scary #Done #Should
“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.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Easter #Morning #Scary
“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.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Christian #Taken #Views
“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

#Believe #Scary #Matter
“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

#Christian #Scary #World
“It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#America #Scary #Looks
“The wise do not investigate such silliness.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Wise #Scary #Silliness
“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.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Ideas #Scary #Faithful
“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

#Judging #Faithful #Facts
“Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Rocks #Psychology #Decorating
“Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Eye #Thinking #Race
“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

#Christian #Order #Essentials
“I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And Iâ€™m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that Iâ€™ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think itâ€™s coarsened. Itâ€™s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You canâ€™t go to a movie â€” or watch a television show for that matter â€” without hearing the constant use of the F-word â€” including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know donâ€™t talk like that!”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Kids #Thinking #Grandchildren
“It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Gun #Rights #People
“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

#Children #Perfect #Big Families
“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”
-- Antonin Scalia

#World #Nine #Lawyer
“A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.”
-- Antonin Scalia

#Law #Economic #Folly

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