Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The elaborate argument against the constitutionality of the Act if interpreted as we read it, in accordance with its obvious meaning does not need an elaborate answer.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.