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.

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

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

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

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.