I knew that my staying up would not chan... by Benjamin Harrison

President Rest Change Civil War Republican Party

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

Other quotes by Benjamin Harrison

God World

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

- Benjamin Harrison

Power History Work Time Life

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

The manner by which women are treated is a good criterion to judge the true state of society. If we know but this one feature in a character of a nation, we may easily judge the rest, for as society advances, the true character of women is discovered.

- Benjamin Harrison

Civil rights Fact Man

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?

- Benjamin Harrison

Government People

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

Great lives never go out; they go on.

- Benjamin Harrison

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

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I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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