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.

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.