Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"I am glad to see here what seems to me to be adequate assurance that this work, so nobly started upon, will be speedily consummated."

"This stone which has now been laid, accompanied by this magnificent expression of popular interest, is only the top stone of a foundation, but it speaks to us of a structure, imposing and graceful in ..."

"believing that the full use of silver as a coined metal upon an agreed ratio by the great commercial nations of the world would very highly promote the prosperity of all their people"

"I have not and will not let any favorable opportunity pass for the promotion of that most desirable result"