Antonin Scalia Quotes

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in ret...

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want...

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

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as st...

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most...

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

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to futu...

I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten...

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protect...

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay,...

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you...

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as someh...

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It c...

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You th...

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who h...

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, endu...

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.