Can not Quote by Abraham Lincoln

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

— Anonymous

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings…

— John Locke

I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the…

— John Taylor

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union,…

— Andrew Jackson

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

— Thomas DiLorenzo

Death is a law not a punishment.

— Anonymous

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.

— Matt Gaetz

“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not…

— Antonin Scalia

“When once the law is evoked it cannot be stayed again, and”

— Arthur Conan Doyle