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

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

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

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

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

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.