Benjamin Harrison Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Benjamin Harrison
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“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
Labor Quotes
“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Great lives never go out; they go on.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The bud of victory is always in the truth.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I like the woodwork on the stairway, the way those men made everything so intricate.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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