Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.