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  • You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

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    Reply to brokers who urged him to lend $44 million from the U.S. Treasury reserve to banks. Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873.
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You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. - Ulysses S. Grant
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