The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

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

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

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.

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