Robert Bork Law Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts.