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  • Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
  • 1816 - 1899
  • 5 quotes

Stephen Johnson Field, Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States (1816 - 1899), is quoted 5 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Government, Political, Constitution and Shadow.

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The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

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

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?

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.

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

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