"Benjamin Harrison" was the List of Presidents of the United States/23rd President of the United States (1889–1893); he was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison. Harrison had become a prominent local attorney, Presbyterian church leader and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the American Civil War, he served the Union for most of the war as a Colonel (United States)/colonel and on February 14, 1865 was confirmed by the United States Senate/U.S. Senate as a Brevet (military)/brevet Brigadier general (United States)/brigadier general of volunteers to rank from January 23, 1865. Afterwards, he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana but was later elected to the U.S. Senate by the Indiana legislature.

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

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Great lives never go out; they go on.

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

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The bud of victory is always in the truth.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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