Above The Law Quotes

• No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Men, Asking Permission

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Law, Police, Criminals

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• Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

  Donald Trump

  Rights, Law, Administration

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  Leon Jaworski

  Years, Law, Generations

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Equality

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.

  Patrick Leahy

  Law, President, Republican

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Law, Principles

  "Obama would ask his AG to 'immediately review' potential of crimes in Bush White House". www.philly.com. April 14, 2008.

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• Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

  Barack Obama

  Law, Justice, Treated

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

  George H. W. Bush

  Law, Enforcement, Officials

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• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Law, Responsible, Should

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

  James Bovard

  Law, President, India

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• Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

  Ramsey Clark

  Kings, Law, People

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• No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

  Eric Holder

  Law, Matter, Individual

  "Citigroup pays $7bn to settle sub-prime mortgage investigation" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2014.

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• Impeachment is our system's last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution's last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.

  James R. Clapper

  Office, President, Action

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• The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

  Gloria Naylor

  Law, People, Community

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• We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

  John Yang

  President, Constitution

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

  Dan Rather

  Law, United States, Definitions

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Famous people are above the law.

  Ricky Gervais

  Law, People

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

  Brigham Young

  Law, Want, Masters

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.364

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• In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

  Lord Acton

  Law, America, England

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• The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

  James Bovard

  Father, Equality, Law

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Sometimes you have to go above the law.

  Fawn Hall

  Law, Sometimes

  "The Bush administration's code of silence" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.

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• No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  Leon Jaworski

  Law, Us Constitution, Watergate

  Leon Jaworski, Dick Schneider (1981). “Crossroads”, David C Cook

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• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

  Aristotle

  Cutting, Errors, Law

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

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• While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Announcements, Should

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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