Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.