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.”

“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 bud of victory is always in the truth.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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