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"If I ever discover that you have betrayed the confidences of what goes on in these chambers, I will do everything in my power to ruin your career."

- Justice Antonin Scalia, to his new law clerks

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The conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty.

- Antonin Scalia

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"Those who wish to create indecent and disrespectful art are as unconstrained now as they were before the enactment of this statute. Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to epater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it."

— Justice Antonin Scalia, on NEA v. Finley

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"A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy."

-Antonin Scalia

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“I attack ideas. I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job.”

-Antonin Scalia

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Chris Wallace: "Are you cantankerous?"
Antonin Scalia: "I express myself vividly."

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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

-Justice Antonin Scalia