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15 quotes by Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more...
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive... →

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

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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... →

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

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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and... →

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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... →

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An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might... →

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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

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