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Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive. Antonin Scalia

Home Business Believe Destructive Immoral Lifestyle Openly Schools Protecting Partners Conduct Families American Children Want Persons Themselves Engage View Teachers Who Many Homosexual

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. Antonin Scalia

Law Constitutional Folly Both Economic

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out. Antonin Scalia

You States Out Having Could Until Were Different Regulations

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! Antonin Scalia

Try Will Sweet Bitter Take Honest

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition. Antonin Scalia

Marriage Enemy Law Decency Every State Definition Restricting Majority Well Arms Opposed Traditional Human Same-Sex Same-Sex Marriage Anyone Declaring Challenger

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt. Antonin Scalia

You Man Power Young White White House Corrupt Tends House Young Man

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable. Antonin Scalia

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Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual. Antonin Scalia

Thought Society Changed Cruel Unusual Used Now

If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction. Antonin Scalia

Cause Indeed Would Slower Direction Take Lazy Had He Headed Knows Always Error Than Person May Move Dynamic Choose Less Who Even Right Right Direction

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Arthur Goldberg

Me Constitution Secular Neutrality Active Prohibited Brooding Religious Seems Only Results Lead Hostility Concept Devotion Passive Pervasive Even Compelled

All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench. Baltasar Garzon

Job Criticism Bench Worried About Doing Continue Intend Done

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. Ben Lindsey

You Youth Path Direct More Efforts Your Less Preparing

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. Ben Lindsey

I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition. Benjamin N. Cardozo

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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Eyes See Martyr Prophet Fixed

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Constitution Law Made Sense Secondary Consistent Judges Subordinate Legislators

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Art Dress Jurisprudence Literature Fashions

Law never is, but is always about to be. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Law About Never Always

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Duty Defines Obeyed Perceived Risk

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Life Law Take Existing Realities

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Benjamin N. Cardozo

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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. Benjamin N. Cardozo

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A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. Benjamin N. Cardozo

Alone Honesty Behavior Honor Stricter Market Morals Something Most Than Place Sensitive Then Held Standard

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