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 HARRISONGreat lives never go out; they go on.
More Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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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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The bud of victory is always in the truth.
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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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The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
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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.
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Great lives never go out; they go on.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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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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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?
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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.
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