221 Quotes by Antonin Scalia

I don't know. I wouldn't want to go through it today, I'll tell you that much.

I cannot imagine any responsible citizen would have objected to giving the name,

Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

I do not believe my impartiality can reasonably be questioned,

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

A judge's lack of predisposition regarding the relevant legal issues in a case has never been thought a necessary component of equal justice, and with good reason, ... For one thing, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who does not have preconceptions about the law.

The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,

The wise do not investigate such silliness.

The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the tune,