APAD: No man is above the law.

The Web site where I found this expression said that it dated back to President

Theodore Roosevelt's Third Annual Message to Congress on Dec 7, 1903. If so, it

is young and maybe not time-tested enough to qualify for a proverb.

 

Its sentiment, however, must have endured eons. For the Chinese, its execution

depends less on people's faith in impersonal systems, but incarnates in rare

individuals, e.g., Mr. Bao, a bureaucrat in the Song Dynasty.