Ben Harrison: “I accept the nomination, and am grateful for the approval expressed by the convention of the acts of the administration.”

International intercourse must always proceed upon the basis of mutual respect and a yielding of mutual right.

I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships…

The first and second and the third and fourth of these provisions are reciprocal in their nature

The statutes relating to the transportation of merchandise between the United States and the British possessions should be the subject of revision