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.

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

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

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

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

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.

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