It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

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

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.

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 particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

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.

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