“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. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), in his third annual message to Congress, Dec. 7, 1903

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