No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

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.

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.

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

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.