If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
Harlan F. StoneWords, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
Harlan F. StoneThe [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan F. StoneThe taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
Harlan F. StoneTo say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.
Harlan F. Stone