legality quotes

Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.

-Knox, Philander Chase
  Quoted in TomBuckley Violent Neighbours (1983), alluding to Theodore Roosevelt's desire to find legal grounds for the seizure of the Panama Canal by the US.

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