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No man is above the law.
Sep 10, 2025
No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.
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.
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.
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.
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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.
We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.
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.
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.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
The law is above the law, you know.
To be clear... no one is above the law.
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).
No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.
While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.
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, . .
No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Sometimes you have to go above the law.
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.
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Famous people are above the law.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.
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.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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.
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
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.
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.
It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he conducts politics, in which he places himself and his family above the law, I wouldn't have considered that possible. And on top of that there is this reduction of complex political decisions to 140 characters. When it comes to a U.S. president, I consider the reduction of politics to a tweet to be truly dangerous. Trump is a risk to his country and the entire world.