Benjamin Harrison actually said...

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 that nothing else could furnish.

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Remarks on Receiving the Riggin Statuette

02/07/1893

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