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.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

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

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.

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

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.