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

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.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

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 federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

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