The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.” — John Marshall Copy Share Image
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well — John Marshall Copy Share
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the… — John Marshall Copy Share
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of… — John Marshall Copy Share
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to… — John Marshall Copy Share
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve… — John Marshall Copy Share
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them… — John Marshall Copy Share
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be… — John Marshall Copy Share
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if… — John Marshall Copy Share
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that… — John Marshall Copy Share
No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from… — John Marshall Copy Share
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from… — John Marshall Copy Share
My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of… — John Marshall Copy Share
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall Copy Share
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by… — John Marshall Copy Share
