The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
BENJAMIN HARRISONThe disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
BENJAMIN HARRISONIt is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
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 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 HARRISONI 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 HARRISONPrayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.
BENJAMIN HARRISONWe Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISONGod 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 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 HARRISONI am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
BENJAMIN HARRISONI’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
BENJAMIN HARRISONThere 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.
BENJAMIN HARRISONGreat lives never go out; they go on.
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 HARRISONSir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
BENJAMIN HARRISON