221 Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.

Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?

A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the 'reasoned judgment' of a bare majority of this Court - we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

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.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.