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

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.

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.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

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.

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

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.