Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? … - Benjamin Harrison

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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

Benjamin Harrison

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

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There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial

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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

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

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Great lives never go out; they go on.

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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.

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