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.


Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)

Wikisource Theodore Roosevelt's Third State of the Union Address


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...

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...

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...

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...