Top 10 Best Benjamin Harrison Quotes

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States; he was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison. During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a colonel and on February 14, 1865 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from January 23, 1865. Later he was elected by Indiana Legislature to US Senate. Here are the top 10 best Benjamin Harrison quotes –

#1 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.

#2 The bud of victory is always in the truth.

#3 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.

#4 We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

#5 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.

#6 I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

#7 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?

#8 Great lives never go out; they go on.

#9 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.

#10 I have often thought that the life of the President is like that of the policeman in the opera, not a happy one.

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