Top 22 Benjamin Harrison Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.
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#3. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
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#8. Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.
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#10. 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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#12. 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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#14. That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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#15. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
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#20. What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children
oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.
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#21. 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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#22. This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
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