Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.

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.