Benjamin Harrison quotes
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“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,
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“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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“Great lives never go out; they go on.”
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“Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.”
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“I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.”
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“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Harrison, Benjamin (1901). “Views of an ex-president”, p.336, Best Books on
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“The bud of victory is always in the truth.”
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“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,
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“I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.”
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“If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?”
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“That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”
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“No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : "A Call to America: Inspiring and Empowering Quotations from the 43 presidents of the United States". Book by Bryan Curtis, 2002.
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“The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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“It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.”
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“Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.”
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“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 HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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“Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”
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“Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”
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“There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.”
-- Benjamin HarrisonSource : Benjamin Harrison (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, ReadHowYouWant.com
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