Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony…

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They wi…

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant…

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the lan…

'A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.'