The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.