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 nigh… - Benjamin Harrison
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 nigh…
- Benjamin Harrison
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… - Benjamin Harrison
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…
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. - Benjamin Harrison
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love. - Benjamin Harrison
That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.
I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one. - Benjamin Harrison
I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given. - Benjamin Harrison
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. - Benjamin Harrison
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
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 thei… - Benjamin Harrison
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 thei…
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 … - Benjamin Harrison
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 …
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