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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

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
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
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

Civil Law Men Rights
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 Mind Rights
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Crime Intimidation Presidential
Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Goes Presidents Day
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 Elected Events Night Result
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

Evil Law Practice
I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Bullets Constant Dread
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

Country House Spiritual
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 Currency Supply Wages
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
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Given Prayer Walking
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Government Patriotic Wish
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

Heart Irritation Permanent Wise
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Police Presidential War

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.

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