"Sir knows our language?"

"Every journey to a forbidden end begins with the first step. The danger of such a step by the federal government in the direction of taking over the powers of the states is that the end of the journey may find the states so despoiled of their powers (or what might amount to the same thing) so relieved of their responsibilities which possession of the powers necessarily enjoins as to reduce them to little more than geographical subdivisions of the national domain."