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

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

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

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.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.