Benjamin Harrison Quotes


Benjamin Harrison Quotes



America
"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 
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/

Being President
I have often thought that the life of the President is like that of the 
policeman in the opera, not a happy one. 
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes



Columbus
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and 
achievement. The system of universal education is in our age the 
most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, 
and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the 
people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag 
float over every school-house in the country, and the exercises be 
such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of 
American citizenship.
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http:http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors
/benjamin_harrison_a001.htm

Deep Things
"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."
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/

Election Night
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 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_harrison.html

Family
I have only a vague memory of my grandfather as I was only a child 
when he died but I will show all my family's famous name is safe 
in my keeping. 
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes

I want to avoid everything that is personal and I want it understood that 
I am grandson of nobody. 
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes



Funny
I do the same thing every day. I eat three meals, sleep six hours 
and read dusty old books the rest of the time. My life is about as 
devoid of anything funny as the great desert is of grass. 
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes

God's Commission
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:1888 address to Congress

Lifes
"Great lives never go out; they go on."
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/

Labor
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 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_harrison.html



Rich and Poor
"The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor 
man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to 
despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a 
man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters 
by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon 
another what he has not earned."
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/

Truth
"The bud of victory is always in the truth."
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/



Wife
After the heavy blow of the death of my wife, I do not think that I could 
have stood re-election. 
Benjamin Harrison 
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes

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