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

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

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

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.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well