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Herbert Hoover: “No nation can for long survive the failure of its citizens to respect and obey the laws which they themselves make.”

On the recordMay 27, 1929
No nation can for long survive the failure of its citizens to respect and obey the laws which they themselves make.
Said by
Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the First Meeting of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.

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