A system of government by the rule of law means that decisions should be made by applying known principles or laws, without the intervention of discretion in their application
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution, nor by the courts, nor by the officers of the law, but by the men and women who constitute our society—who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected
Law and freedom without violence are incompatible. Violence and law without freedom are also incompatible
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.