While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample... Benjamin Harrison More Quotes by Benjamin Harrison More Quotes From Benjamin Harrison I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. Benjamin Harrison inspirational-lifemoneymen Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given. Benjamin Harrison givenprayerwalking 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. Benjamin Harrison matterclassmen Great lives never go out; they go on. Benjamin Harrison presidents-daygoes-on 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. Benjamin Harrison agedoemen I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself. Benjamin Harrison testsdoecharacter 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. Benjamin Harrison rightsmindmen We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison presidentialpolicewar The bud of victory is always in the truth. Benjamin Harrison budpresidentialvictory That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love. Benjamin Harrison flagsloyaltytoday I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one. Benjamin Harrison bulletsdreadconstant I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. Benjamin Harrison memorial-dayupliftingmilitary The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. Benjamin Harrison intimidationpresidentialcrime 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? Benjamin Harrison rightslawmen Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. Benjamin Harrison presidentialjustified 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. Benjamin Harrison eventschangenight 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. Benjamin Harrison governmentlandpeople 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? Benjamin Harrison takentogetherbook 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? Benjamin Harrison practicelawclass It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues. Benjamin Harrison easierarmymoney
