The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

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.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

To 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.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.