Robert Bork Quotes on Law & Regulation (9 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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.

If you know anything about bar association politics, it is not constitutional scholars who become president of the bar association. She has very little, if any, acquaintanceship with constitutional law, and it's a very hard thing to get a hold of if you go into the court and start wrestling with it. In fact, you're likely to get it very wrong.

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.

One noted legal authority endorses the White House response. As I understand it, you can get marijuana whether or not you're really sick at all, ... Whether or not it really helps with pain or illness, effectively it's the legalization of marijuana.

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

Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts.