Quotes from Benjamin Harrison

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

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

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?

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?

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.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector