John Marshall Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

  John Marshall

  Liberty, Useless, May

  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

• Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

  John Marshall

  Differences, Democracies Have, Order

  John Marshall (1836). “The life of George Washington: commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States”, p.447