The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Law never is, but is always about to be.
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.