I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.
John MarshallThe 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.
John MarshallThe people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
John MarshallWhat are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
John MarshallThat the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.
John Marshall