He should have no policy distinct from that of his party, and this is better represented in Congress than in the Executive.

Cleveland made his cardinal mistake in dictating a tariff policy to Congress.

Lincoln had a happy faculty in dealing with Members and Senators.

I am not seeking or expecting any position, nor have I ever determined in my own mind whether I could, consistently with my duties to Ohio, accept any executive office.

The result of the nomination at Chicago did not in the least disturb my equanimity or my allegiance to the great party to which I belonged, and for the success of which I had devoted my life since 1854.

The only feeling of resentment I entertained was in regard to the action of the friends of General Alger in tempting with money poor negroes to violate the instructions of their constituents.

This feeling of freedom is so strong with me that I am glad I did not get the nomination." Whether I uttered these words or not, they expressed my feeling of relief at the time.

We have faults, all have failings, and no one can claim more than a fair and common average of honest purpose and noble aim.

I come to-day as a gleaner on a well-reaped field, by skillful workmen who have garnered the crop and placed it in stacks so high that I cannot steal a sheaf without being detected.

I thank fortune I have no framed speech made, for, if I had, the speech would have been read or spoken to you in eloquent terms, but I only come with thoughts inspired by the great history we are called upon to review--a hundred years of…

Virginia is entitled to the honor of having this son; but it was George Rogers Clark who gave the United States its title to the northwest.

You talk about hard times now--I have seen the time when a man was glad to get thirty-two cents for a bushel of wheat; when eggs could not be sold, when the only way to get 'York money' was to drive horses and cattle and sheep over the…

I shall think, however, that I am not through unless I reverently and devoutly give thanks to the Ruler of the universe for all this great good that has come upon this great continent.

I reverently thank God for our homes, for our great cities, for our state and, more than all else, for our country.

Benjamin Harrison is a man for whom every American citizen should vote.

He would stand like a wall of fire on every question of honor with a foreign country.

If you want to do your country a valuable service you will go to the polls and give a good square honest vote for Harrison.

I gratefully acknowledge that all the political favor I have received has been from the people of my native state.

I doubted the wisdom of competing presidential candidates accepting cabinet appointments under a successful rival.

The experiment of Lincoln, with Chase and Seward as his principal advisers, was not a good example to follow.

The time has arrived when Congress, and especially the Senate, must give intelligent attention to the questions involved in the occupation and settlement of the Samoan Islands.

The repeated wars on a small scale that have occurred since that time, and the complications and expense caused by the tripartite protectorate of the islands, furnish another example of the folly of the United States in extending its…

Our continental position ought to dissuade us from accepting outside possessions which in case of war would cost the United States more to defend than their value.

It is a sad reflection, that applies especially to all parts of southern Italy, that the descendants of the Romans, once the rulers of the world, are now classed among the lowest in intelligence in the Christian and civilized world.

I commend the wisdom of their choice of location, for in Florence the love of art, especially of sculpture, is more highly appreciated than in any other city of Europe that I have visited.