When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

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.

I am the happiest soul.

Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.