"The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential ... whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void."
"The U.S. military, while necessary for a strong union, could be used by a tyrannical president against 'we the people.'"
"The subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidabl..."
"the judiciary is so functionally impotent that it must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."
"must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."
"Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as impossible, fettered or embarrassed."
"There should be a swift trial to determine things finally."
"the greatest danger is that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties and by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt."
"There can be no truer principle than this, that every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government. An undercount of any community will compromise this."
"They will always keep in mind that their countrymen are free men and, as such, are impatient of everything that bears the least mark of a domineering spirit."
"The national judiciary ought to preside in all cases in which one State or its citizens are opposed to another State or its citizens."