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Teddy Roosevelt: “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.”

On the recordDecember 6, 1903
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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