20 Quotes by Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, made significant contributions to the nation during his tenure in office from 1889 to 1893. Known for his commitment to civil rights and economic expansion, Harrison's presidency was marked by notable achievements and reforms. He championed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which sought to curb the power of monopolies, and signed the Land Revision Act of 1891, which expanded opportunities for land settlement in the West.
Harrison also prioritized the strengthening of the U.S. Navy, taking steps to modernize and expand its capabilities. Additionally, he played a key role in the passage of the McKinley Tariff Act, which aimed to protect domestic industries. Harrison's advocacy for civil rights included efforts to combat voter suppression and support for African American education.
While his presidency faced challenges and criticism, his commitment to advancing economic and civil rights reforms left a lasting impact. Benjamin Harrison's tenure as president exemplified his dedication to progress and his belief in the power of government to effect positive change, contributing to the ongoing development of the United States as a dynamic and prosperous nation.
Benjamin Harrison Quotes
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. (Meaning)
Great lives never go out; they go on.
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.
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.
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
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.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
― Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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