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 most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

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 people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.