No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.