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The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
— John Marshall
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
— John Marshall Harlan
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
— John Marshall
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
— John Marshall
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
— Dahlia Lithwick
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
— Anthony Burgess
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
— John Marshall
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
— John Marshall
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.
— John Marshall
My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not.
— Trevor St. John
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
— John Marshall
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers werenot engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens. — John Marshall
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Marshall, all big men, and strong in every sense, deferred to him.
— Mark David Ledbetter
I fear we may live to see another revolution.
— John Marshall
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
— John Marshall
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.
— John Marshall
The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
— John Marshall
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
— John Marshall
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
— John Marshall
'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
— Neil Marshall
If George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.
— Jean Edward Smith
A constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, and
consequently, to be adapted to the
various crises of human affairs. — John Marshall
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[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
— William Rehnquist
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
— John Marshall
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.
— John Marshall
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
— John Marshall
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan II
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
