Benjamin Harrison Professions : 23rd U.S. President Born : August 20, 1833 Died : March 13, 1901 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Benjamin Harrison 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. Benjamin Harrison irritation wise heart 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 spiritual house country Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. Benjamin Harrison patriotic government wish 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 Benjamin Harrison practice evil law 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. Benjamin Harrison currency wages comfort 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 Benjamin Harrison oath-of-office government people While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample... Benjamin Harrison Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds. Benjamin Harrison The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity. Benjamin Harrison If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. Benjamin Harrison We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. Benjamin Harrison being government serious spirit
