Benjamin Harrison Quotes

• 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 Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "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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• Great lives never go out; they go on.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Goes On, Presidents Day

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• Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Prayer, Given, Walking

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• God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Rights, Mind

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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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.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Character, Doe, Tests

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• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  Benjamin Harrison

  War, Presidential, Police

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

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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 Harrison

  Men, Class, Matter

  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.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Presidential, Victory, Bud

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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 Harrison

  Presidential, Intimidation, Crime

  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 Harrison

  Men, Age, Doe

  "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.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Bullets, Dread, Constant

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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?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Book, Taken, Together

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• That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Loyalty, Flags, Today

  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 Harrison

  Presidential, Justified

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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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 Harrison

  Men, Rights, Law

  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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• 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 Harrison

  Government, Land, People

  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 Harrison

  Change, Night, Events

  "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 Harrison

  Law, Practice, Evil

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

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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 Harrison

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Military

  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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• It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Army, Easier

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• Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Patriotic, Government, Wish

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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.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Spiritual, Country, House

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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 Harrison

  Law, Practice, Class

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

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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 Harrison

  Wise, Heart, Irritation

  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 Harrison

  Comfort, Wages, Currency

  Benjamin Harrison (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, ReadHowYouWant.com

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