3 December 2020 Robert Bork Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.