Benjamin Harrison actually said...

We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor pla...

It was as if heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality typified by that flag.

It gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute, which I have usually been able to pay since this day was instituted, to the dead ...