“People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.”

— Antonin Scalia

Speech at the University of Chicago Law School http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/05/09/justice_scalia_speak.php (6 May 2003).
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