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Quotes by Judge
"I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests."
"I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle."
"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."
"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."
"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."
"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."
"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."
"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit."
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
"They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do."
"It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject."
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government."
"A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government."
"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained."
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
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"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
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"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
"To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country."
"Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned."
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"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."
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