Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrisonwas the 23rd President of the United States; he was the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison. Before ascending to the presidency, Harrison established himself as a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a colonel and on February 14, 1865 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from January 23, 1865. After the war,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth20 August 1833
CityNorth Bend, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
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.
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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.
God 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.
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process
I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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.
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.
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.