I often say that to live sublimely the line of one’s life must end outside the frame like a Japanese drawing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.