No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.