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

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.

Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.

Opportunity never comes to you but you should create an opportunity.

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.