Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Robert Bork
Born: March 1, 1927
Died: December 19, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Robert Heron Bork was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism.
Known for:
- The TEMPTING OF AMERICA (1990)
- The Antitrust Paradox (1978)
- Coercing Virtue (2002)
- A Country I Do Not Recognize (2005)