A government of laws, and not of men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.