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Famous Quotes By Benjamin Harrison

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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

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

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Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability. — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead. — Benjamin Harrison

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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 Harrison

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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

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There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues. — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. — Benjamin Harrison

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The bud of victory is always in the truth. — Benjamin Harrison

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In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others. — Benjamin Harrison

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Great lives never go out; they go on. — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children
oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is. — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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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

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. — Benjamin Harrison

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If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps? — Benjamin Harrison

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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

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Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. — Benjamin Harrison

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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