84 Quotes by John Marshall

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.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.