67 Quotes by Robert Bork

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

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

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

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

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

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.

The judge’s authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.

I don’t think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don’t study the Constitution itself.

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