Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISONSir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISONGreat lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISONThe disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
BENJAMIN HARRISONI’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
BENJAMIN HARRISONI am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
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?
BENJAMIN HARRISONI pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
BENJAMIN HARRISONPrayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
BENJAMIN HARRISONThe 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 HARRISONWhen 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 HARRISONThe bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISONNo 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 HARRISONThat one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
BENJAMIN HARRISONWill 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 HARRISONWe Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISONHave 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