American Original Quotes

“More tells his son-in-law Roper, “Whoever hunts for me, Roper, God or Devil, will find me hiding in the thickets of the law! And I’ll hide my daughter with me! Not hoist her up to the mainmast of your seagoing principles! They put about too nimbly!”5”
― Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

“Alexis de Tocqueville, observing that “there was hardly a political question in the United States that did not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.”1”
― Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

“A worldly wise and somewhat overbearing Lucy asks the good-hearted and somewhat naive Charlie Brown, ‘Charlie, what would you rather do, be captain of the baseball team or marry the cute redheaded girl?’ And Charlie replies innocently, ‘Why can’t I do both?’ to which Lucy responds, ‘It’s the real world, Charlie Brown.’ “60”
― Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

“I felt he was speaking”
― Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia