In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

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.

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

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

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.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.