It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intende….

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses..

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?.

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested a….

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained;….

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitu….

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were t….

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without….

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and f….

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species..

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over go….

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy..

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason..

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the publi….

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion..

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations..

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a ….

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place..

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people..

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America….