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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
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Benjamin Harrison
politician, military officer, lawyer, statesperson, writer
1833 – 1901
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. A Union army veteran and a Republican, he defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland to win the presidency in 1888.
All Quotes by Benjamin Harrison
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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
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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
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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
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
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As president of the United States, I was present, at the first pan-American congress.
— Benjamin Harrison
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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
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison