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By Benjamin Harrison
As a citizen may not elect what laws he will obey, neither may the Executive elect which he will enforce.
- 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 rejecting any special policy for one section of the country, a live issue in the years after Reconstruction, and says the President must enforce all laws alike.