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On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.