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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. - [Corporations] More than any other individual, and as much as to one individual was possible, has he contributed to found this, our wide spreading empire, and to give to the Western World independence and freedom. - [Washington, George] The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says. - [Judges] The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - in the case "McCulloch v. Maryland" [Taxation] The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them and for their benefit. - McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316 [Government] The all-men power; government over all, by all, and for the sake of all. - Pamphlet--The Relation of Slavery to a Republican Form of Government, a speech at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention [Government]
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