“Self preservation is a paramount law, which a nation, as well as an individual, may find it necessary to invoke.”

  “Self preservation is a paramount law, which a nation, as well as an individual, may find it necessary to invoke.”–United States District Court Judge Humphrey H. Leavitt in the Habeas Corpus case of U.S. Rep. C.L. Vallandigham [The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, PA., Thursday, May 28, 1863. Volume 4. Number 35. Pg. 1] (Humphrey Howe Leavitt, (June 18, 1796 – March 15, 1873), was an Ohio attorney and politician who served as U.S. Representative from Ohio, and in the Ohio House of Representatives. As well as United States District Court judge, appointed by President Andrew Jackson.)