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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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