(97 quotes found)
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”
Antonin Scalia
“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?”
“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.”
“Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, ... Please, counselor, don't read all these tenderhearted things into it.”
“The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the tune,”
“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.”
“[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”
“A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.”
“A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.”
“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.”
