Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman, shall be cons..."

"It is ordered,That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service"

"no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination un..."

"Shall it rise with stately progress, without check or tardiness, until the capstone is set amid the plaudits of the liberal and patriotic citizens of this great city?"