Quotes by : Antonin Scalia

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow....

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think....

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring.....

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything....

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has....

I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten....

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want,....