Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A government of laws, and not of men.
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.