"“The United States has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Instead, wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln.”"
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Justices of the Supreme Court of the United StatesYale University alumniRepublican Party (United States) politiciansPoliticians from MarylandPoliticians from Illinois
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1866-04-03, opinion in Ex parte Milligan
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David Davis (justice)
David Davis (March 9, 1815 – June 26, 1886) was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for President by that party.
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