List of Benjamin Harrison Quotes

There Is No Constitutional Or Legal Requirement That The President Shall Take The Oath Of Office In The Presence Of The People But There Is So Manifest An Appropriateness In The Public Induction To Office Of The Chief Executive Officer Of The Nation That From The Beginning Of The Government The People To Whose Service The Official Oath Consecrates The Officer, Have Been Called To Witness The Solemn Ceremonial

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.

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.

Sir, I Wish To Understand The True Principles Of The Government. I Wish Them Carried Out. I Ask Nothing More.

If The Educated And Influential Classes In A Community Either Practice Or Connive At The Systematic Violation Of Laws That Seem To Them To Cross Their Convenience, What Can They Expect When The Lesson That Convenience Or A Supposed Class Interest Is A Sufficient Cause For Lawlessness Has Been Well Learned By The Ignorant Classes?

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.

It Is Often Easier To Assemble Armies Than It Is To Assemble Army Revenues.

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

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.

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.

I Have Never Been Able To Think Of The Day As One Of Mourning; I Have Never Quite Been Able To Feel That Half-masted Flags Were Appropriate On Decoration Day. I Have Rather Felt That The Flag Should Be At The Peak, Because Those Whose Dying We Commemorate Rejoiced In Seeing It Where Their Valor Placed It. We Honor Them In A Joyous, Thankful, Triumphant Commemoration Of What They Did.

Lincoln Had Faith In Time, And Time Has Justified His Faith.