Robert Bork Quotes

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.