Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia

[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.

Done

Scary

Should

[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table…. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

Army

Gun

Pride

[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.

Government

Rights

Rooms

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

Basements

Machines

Purpose

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Bottom

Happens

Turntables

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.

Character

Learning

Teaching

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.

Believe

Gun

Hands

Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.

Commitment

Long

Promise

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

Bans

Bedroom

Burning

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.

Doe

Issues

Sex

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America

American Flag

Army

Bans

Basements

Bedroom

Believe

Blow

Bombs

Bottom

Burning

Character

Children

Christian

Commitment

Competition

Constitution

Court Judges

Credit

Decision

Decorating

Demand

Determination

Dissent

Doe

Done

Easter

Exercise

Eye

Faces

Faithful

Feelings

Fighting

Gay Marriage

Giving

Goal

God

Government

Grandchildren

Groups

Guilt

Gun

Hands

Happens

Hippie

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Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia

[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.

[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.

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

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

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.

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.

Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.

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

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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