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"You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law."
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Source: Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. No one is above the law appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, no officer ... is above the law is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).
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