The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our Founders understood them to scholarly dialogue and, through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

The Honorable Ronald Reagan
Second Nationl Lawyers Convention

...you [The Federalist Society] have already made, in your rather short life a considerable, an indispensable contribution to the dialogue about the rule of law which lies at the heart of the great freedoms that I am convinced many of us take for granted every single day of our lives. And I salute you for this intellectual vigor in framing the issues, and also for the contributions that ... you've made to this administration.

The Honorable George Bush
First National Lawyers Convention

I don't know of any legal organization that has had such a dramatic impact across the country as you have had, and you are just beginning ... [you] people are willing to get in there and understand the most difficult of society's concepts, write for them, work for them ... you're provocative and you are helping people to get excited about the law.

United States Senator Orrin Hatch

The Society's membership includes the best and brightest of the Nation's judges, lawyers and law students.

William Broomfield
U.S. House of Representatives

... the Federalist Society has expanded beyond the law school campus to become a remarkably influential force in national policy making.

American Lawyer

... the convention of the Federalist Society was a show of intellectual firepower and numerical forces by conservatives who have already begun to change the terms of legal debate and to revive legal doctrines that were for decades dismissed as historical curiosities.

The New York Times

By providing a forum for such ... ideas as adhering to the Constitution as written, the Federalists may well have changed the intellectual momentum in America's law schools.

National Review

I can't think of an award I'd rather have, or an organization I'd rather have it from.

Judge Robert H. Bork
On receiving the Society's James
Madison Award, March 1988

They promote debate, and that is a good thing. Their ideas are absoluely legitimate ideas. They are respectable ideas that need to be debated, and that is the valuable function that the Society serves. I don't happen to agree with many of their conclusions, but the debate is important and valid.

Dean Geoffery Stone
University of Chicago Law School

The fact that there are two sides to the debate is evidenced by my presence here today, but your contribution to stimulating debate, to get us on the other side to think more clearly about the issues, and to presenting [Constitutional issues] to the American public ... has performed an enormously useful function

Professor Alan Dershowitz
Harvard Law School
Second National Lawyers Convention

It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause for hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent and unpretentious, these are young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

Thomas Sowell
Hoover Institute

... its [The Federalist Society] influence appears to transcend the entire legal community.

Alliance for Justice Report
"Justice for Sale"

I also want to congratulate the Federalist Socitey for putting this program on. I can't recall a time when I've taken part in a conference on the Constitution where people have been willing to leave their ideological and social activism at the door and talk about the environment. I think it's very healthy.

Judge Abner J. Mikva
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Symposium of Federalism and Checks
and Balances
November, 1986

... one thing can be said with certainty about the Federalist Society: it has been the right organization at the right time, an academic legal voice in the era of the Reagan Revolution. Consequently, it retains an uncanny ability for a largely student-oriented organization to attract big means -- liberal, conservative and in between -- to participate in its activities. And on campus, those activities are greeted cordially, even by academics who disagree with any of their conservative views, because their debating forums and symposia have begun to reawaken academic debate.

Student Lawyer

... the Federalist Society has brought to campus the commitment to real, honest, vigorous and open discussion. It is a result of the works of the Federalist Society to create a wonderful environment for discussion social, political, legal and constitutional issues.

Dean Paul Brest
Stanford Law School
March, 1990

First of all I want to thank the Federalist Society for this opportunity to participate and to congratulate you on what you've done during the past ten years. It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and to contribute to free speech, free debate and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and ... in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.

Nadine Strossen
ACLU
Yale Symposium
March, 1991