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Robert Bork

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

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Robert Bork

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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Robert Bork

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

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Robert Bork

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.

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Robert Bork

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

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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.

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Robert Bork

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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Robert Bork

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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Robert Bork

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.

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Robert Bork

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

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Robert Bork

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

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Robert Bork

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.

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