In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.