What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

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.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

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 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.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

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