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 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.

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

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

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.

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

The power to tax is the power to destroy.