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By Benjamin Harrison
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.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1889
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Benjamin Harrison's inaugural address on March 4, 1889. He is arguing that respect for law, not mob rule, is what draws honest business and labor to a place. In context he was speaking about lawlessness in parts of the South.