Robert Bork Quotes

A collection of quotes by Robert Bork.

Robert Bork (1927-2012) was an American legal scholar and jurist. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he played a significant role in shaping conservative judicial philosophy. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor and Solicitor General during President Richard Nixon's administration. However, he gained widespread attention and controversy when nominated for the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. His nomination faced strong opposition due to his conservative ideology and was ultimately rejected by the Senate after contentious hearings. Bork's career had a lasting impact on the legal community's discussions surrounding originalism and constitutional interpretation.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while fin

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it be

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

Society

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's natu

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.

Nature

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectua

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Religion

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being

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

Equality

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel f

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Herman Melville

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