Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions ...” ~ Justice Horace Gray (1828-1902) Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme CourtSource: Justice Gray in the majority opinion for Nishimura Ekiu v. United States, (1892)