"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"

-- Robert Bork

#Judging Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Made Quotes

“We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says, Uh. . . . Right, son! My theory is that Bud Bundy was named after marijuana.”
“My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.”
“The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.”
“The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”

Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.124, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.”
“The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.”
“The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.”
“If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich”

You may also like:

Anthony Kennedy
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Archibald Cox
Former United States Solicitor General
Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
William Rehnquist
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
William Ruckelshaus
Attorney
Sandra Day O'Connor
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States