The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.