A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

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

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

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

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

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.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.