Stephen Johnson Field Quotes

• Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Government, Political, Foundation

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• The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Shadow, Substance, Constitution

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• When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Law, Judging, Court

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 430-34, 1922.

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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• Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Views, Government, Stones

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