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Top 20 Robert Bork Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Bork Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.”

2. “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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Robert Bork Quote: “No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.”

3. “No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.”

5. “Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.”

6. “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 Quote: “One man’s larceny is another’s just distribution of goods.”

7. “One man’s larceny is another’s just distribution of goods.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.”

8. “No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.”

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

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

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Robert Bork Quote: “There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.”

12. “There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.”

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

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Robert Bork Quote: “The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.”

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

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Robert Bork Quote: “The judge’s authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.”

15. “The judge’s authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.”

16. “There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.”

18. “The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.”

19. “Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.”

20. “As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.”

21. “The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves – not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.”

23. “The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves – not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.”

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Robert Bork Quote: “Under the First Amendment’s prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.”

24. “Under the First Amendment’s prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.”

— Robert Bork

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