The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow t…

- Melville Fuller

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

- Melville Fuller

To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat…

- Melville Fuller

The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretati…

- Melville Fuller

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and…

- Melville Fuller

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the o…

- Melville Fuller