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 HARRISONIf 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?
More Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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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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Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
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The bud of victory is always in the truth.
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That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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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
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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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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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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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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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Great lives never go out; they go on.
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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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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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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?
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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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