Author: Robert Bork

Quotes

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

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

- Robert Bork

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

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

- Robert Bork

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

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

- Robert Bork

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.

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.

- Robert Bork

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