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

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.

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.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

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 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.