Benjamin Harrison Quote

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?


Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids (ed. 1969)


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...

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...

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...

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...