Benjamin Harrison quotes

1833–1901 · North Bend, OH

• The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.

• A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor.

• As a citizen may not elect what laws he will obey, neither may the Executive elect which he will enforce.

• My promise is spoken; yours unspoken, but not the less real and solemn.

• The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.