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

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.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

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

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

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.