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I think I'm a pretty nice fella.
- Antonin Scalia
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Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Democracy
#Marriage
#Stop
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.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Nothing
#Privacy
#Us
And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Now
#Say
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#Stupid
I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.
- Antonin Scalia
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It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Health
#Mind
#Never
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Right
#Rights
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#Whatever
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Follow
#Important
#More
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
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#Time
#Yourself
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
- Antonin Scalia
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#Mean
#Text
#You
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Constitution
#Death
#Good
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Mean
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#Today
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Honest
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#You
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Stupidity
#Today
#Wisdom
#World
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Death
#Future
#Mean
#Punishment
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
- Antonin Scalia
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#He
#Irony
#Lawyer
#Mystery
#Take
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
- Antonin Scalia
#Direction
#Good Person
#Good
#Will
#Wise
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
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#Family
#Not Perfect
#Okay
#Perfect
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Good Man
#Good
#Man
#Who
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
- Antonin Scalia
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#Meaning
#Words
I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
- Antonin Scalia
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