black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
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
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Flags Loyalty Today
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
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
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
Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Goes Presidents Day
I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Bullets Constant Dread
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
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Police Presidential War
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

Inspirational Life Men Money
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
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Army Easier Money
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
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

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?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Harrison Quotes