“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.”

Quoted on 1920-01-05, in a dissent to Ruppert v. Caffey by James Clark McReynolds, who notes that the passage “[h]as been regarded as a splendid exemplification of the protection which this court must extend in time of war to rights guaranteed by the Constitution…” | Quoted on 1986-09-16, in Proclamation 5367, by Ronald Reagan as “How grateful to God all Americans should be that our Constitution remains as Judge David Davis observed more than a century ago: ‘A law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.’”