Benjamin Harrison

“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

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

“Great lives never go out; they go on.”

“The bud of victory is always in the truth.”

“The disfranchisement of a single legal voter by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”

“Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses or lands or products of mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.”

“The friendly right of counsel is the best safeguard against the abuse of power.”

“I want it to be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“Prayer is the master key. A key that has unlocked the treasuries of heaven.”

“God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and riches... but we must not forget that we are in his hands.”