Top Robert Bork Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Robert Bork Biography

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, the United States Solicitor General, the Acting United States Attorney General, and as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the Supreme Court, but the United States Senate rejected his nomination.

Read about Robert Bork in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Robert Bork Quotes

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

Country, Justice, Justices, Law, Step

[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

Always Arguing, Association, People, Protects, Thinking, Thinks

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.

Constitution, Including, Law, School, Study, Thinking

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Activity, Harm, Immoral, Knowledge, Society, Thinking

Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well.

Broken, Destroy, History, Independent, People, Revere

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Ideas, Judges, Judging, Men, Nature

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

Jobs, Men, Thinking, Right, Perceived, Resigning

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

Democracy, Legislative, Majority, Merely, Plan, Way

When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.

Democracy, Deprives, Envisions, Framers, Judging, People

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

Christian, Doubt, Hostility, Prestige, Public, Religious

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

Assuming, Decide, Judge, Judging, Legislation, Power

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Amendment, First Amendment, Firsts, Government, Sexually, Titillate

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Constitutional, Democracy, Judge, Judging, Law

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Deal, Funny, Inspirational, Keel, Sailing, Ship

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Christian, Matter, Prohibition, Religious, Under

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Equality, Fourteenth, Law, Purpose, Separation

If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.

Christian, Religious, New York, Washington, Control, Hollywood

Conservatives. . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.

Activist, Conservatives, Mean, Two Sides, Views, Winning

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Achieved, Children, Enlightenment, Reason, Society

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

Concept, Fashion, Law, Wind, Winds

1