The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

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 courts must decide on th…

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…

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…