Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

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

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

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