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• The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....
• A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
• To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
• Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield…
• What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
• A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
• The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
• The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only…
• It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
• The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written…
• The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear…

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