Benjamin Harrison Quotes

"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."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Change, Thought, Day, Night, Rest, Result)

"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?"
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Civil rights, Fact, Law, Man)

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: God, Americans, Police, World)

"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."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Government, Being, Concern, Now, Russia, Spirit)

"Great lives never go out; they go on."
- Benjamin Harrison

"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Man, Pity, Will, Woman)

"The bud of victory is always in the truth."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Truth, Victory)

"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."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Government, Love, People, Labor, Land, Respect)