Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISONThe bud of victory is always in the truth.
More Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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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’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
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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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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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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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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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Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
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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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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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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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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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Great lives never go out; they go on.
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