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

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.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

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

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

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.