Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Image
