The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

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.

Large families are communities unto their own.

Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.