Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Antonin Scalia
- As a young man, you’re dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
- The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment—in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meeting out of condign justice for horrible crimes—outweighs the risk of error.
- Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
- The court makes an amazing number of decisions that ought to be made by the people.
- 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’ve got to get another day job. You don’t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
- If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
- More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
- Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited… It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
- If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed, the lazy person who knows what’s right, over the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he’s headed in the right direction.
- The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn’t worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) was an influential American jurist and a leading conservative voice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Scalia earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960. He served in various legal capacities, including as a law professor and in the Nixon and Ford administrations, before President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982.
In 1986, Scalia was nominated and confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, where he served until his death in 2016. Known for his originalist and textualist approach to constitutional interpretation, Scalia argued for strict adherence to the framers’ intent and the literal text of legal statutes. His opinions often reflected a staunchly conservative perspective on issues such as the Second Amendment, federalism, and social matters. Scalia’s sharp intellect, eloquence, and wit made him a formidable presence on the court, and he left an enduring legacy in shaping the conservative legal philosophy. His sudden death in 2016 sparked a political and judicial debate over the nomination and confirmation of his successor.
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