Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISONNo 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.
More Benjamin Harrison Quotes
-
-
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 -
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
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 -
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 -
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
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 -
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
BENJAMIN HARRISON -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISON