"No man in this
country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may
set that law at defiance, with impunity. All the officers of the
government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law are bound
to obey it."
"It is the only
supreme power in our system of government, and every man who, by accepting
office participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to
submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes on
the exercise of the authority which it gives."