Above The Law Quotes - Page 2

• No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

  Van Jones

  Law

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• It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Children, Book

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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• To be clear... no one is above the law.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Law, Clear

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• The law is above the law, you know.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Law, Knows

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Little Brothers”, p.89, Open Road Media

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• I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  Andrew Thomas

  Powerful, Law, Community

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• As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

  Jessica Hahn

  Law, Church, Said

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• So he's above the law because he's a celebrity or something. Just because you're Russell Crowe doesn't mean you can do whatever you like.

  Becky Freeman

  Mean, Law, Can Do

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• We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

  Said Seyam

  Law, Demand, Chaos

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• She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.

  Patrick Leahy

  War, Rights, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  Nancy Johnson

  Believe, Law, President

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• Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Men, Law

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• At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Mistake, Independent, Law

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• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Flames

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• No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Law, Justice, Behalf

  "Baltimore Prosecutor Charges Six Police Officers, Calls Freddie Gray’s Death a 'Homicide'". Press Conference, www.democracynow.org. May 01, 2015.

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• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

  Ai Weiwei

  Law, Justice, People

  "Ai Weiwei told not to leave China as bail conditions lifted" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula's house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one another, and some fistfights even broke out. Some of his supporters are claiming that this is equivalent of a coup attempt, an attempt to remove Rousseff from power and prevent Lula from running again. And other people are saying that this is simply a display of rule of law in Brazil, that no one in Brazil can be above the law at this time.

  Simon Romero

  Running, Morning, Law

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.

  David Cameron

  Mean, Law, Important

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• A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

  Marc Morial

  Law, Police, Uniforms

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

  William Hazlitt

  Government, Law, People

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• If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Eye, Men, Law

  Greg L. Bahnsen (1985). “By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today”, p.175, American Vision

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• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Law, Physicians, Medical Profession

  The Health Master Ch. 1

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• Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

  Big Pun

  Law, Politics

  Song: Boomerang, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Law, Accountability, Emirates

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• No man is above the law.

  William H. Pryor, Jr.

  Men, Law, Atheism

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• If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

  Brigham Young

  Law, Wife, Judging

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.361

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