38 Quotes by Benjamin Harrison

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

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

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

I like the woodwork on the stairway, the way those men made everything so intricate.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

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