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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

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
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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Heart Irritation Permanent Wise
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
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Government Patriotic Wish
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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Inspirational Life Men Money
Great lives never go out; they go on.
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Goes Presidents Day
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
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Army Easier Money
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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Character Doe Tests
I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
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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.
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Government Land People
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
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Crime Intimidation Presidential
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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Change Elected Events Night Result
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Police Presidential War
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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Evil Law Practice
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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Civil Law Men Rights
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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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.
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Comfort Currency Supply Wages

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