"When a law is in its nature a……" — John Marshall
"When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights."
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43 Quotes by John Marshall
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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…
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
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Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
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To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either…
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
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A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
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The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and…
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
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The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to…
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The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and…
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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