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

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

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.

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.

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

I fear we may live to see another revolution.