Andrew Quote by Jeff Greenfield

In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the…

— Jimmy Carter

“It was these elite families which produced such notable Americans of Scotch-Irish ancestry as Patrick Henry. Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, James Polk, Zachary Taylor,…

— Thomas Sowell

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human…

— Abraham Lincoln

I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to…

— Harry S. Truman

“The intriguing history of American applied toponymy includes a few notoriously unpopular sweeping decisions a year after President Benjamin Harrison created the Board on…

— Mark Monmonier

“Human Trafficking, Will Obama Now Act? Former Border Patrol agent Zachary Taylor talked with Glenn Beck in 2012, and shared a chilling slide show…

— Floyd G Brown

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after…

— Scott Berkun

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

— William C. Bryant

In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I mean, people…

— John Dickerson

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide…

— Robert Dallek

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to…

— Jay Leno

“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -James A. Garfield”

— Christopher Nuttall

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months…

— Jim Cooper

“Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ... The only…

— Sarah Vowell

“Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield,…

— Richard White