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.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

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 is the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

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

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

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

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

People in hell want snowcones.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.