Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISONI am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
More Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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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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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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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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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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It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
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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.
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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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That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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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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The bud of victory is always in the truth.
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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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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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Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
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