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Benjamin Harrison

"If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?"

Source : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

Benjamin Harrison

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“Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
“Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.”
“Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.”
“When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.”
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing
“The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.”
“You have to believe in yourself and be strong.”
“I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.”

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