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By Herbert Hoover
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1929
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1929, in his passage on law enforcement and the Eighteenth Amendment. The sentence before it says the whole system of self-government will crumble if officials pick which laws to enforce or citizens pick which laws to support.