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