Benjamin Harrison Quotes

United States, Politician
August 20, 1833 – March, 13, 1901.

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.

Also known as President, Lawyer

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
- Up
- Night
- Rest
But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed. Every constituency in the Union is wronged.

Benjamin Harrison
- People
- Country
- Political

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

Benjamin Harrison
- World
- God
- Police
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
- God
- Mind
- American