Action Quote by John Marshall

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

— John Marshall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

— John Marshall

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