The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and… — 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
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
My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... — 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
