"We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution -- not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 9, 1937), reported in Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedomā (2005), p. 411.
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