August 20, 2011
"Great lives never go out; they go on."
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President, 1889-1893, Born this day 1833
On August 20, 1891, Harrison visited Mount McGregor, New York, where former President and civil war hero, Ulysses S. Grant had died in 1885. Harrison delivered a short speech in honor of Grant.
In part, he said: "We are gathered here in a spot which is historic.
This mountain has been fixed in the affectionate and reverent
memory of all our people and has been glorified by the death on
its summit of Gcu. Ulysses S. Grant. It is fit that that great spirit
that had already lifted its fame to a height unknown in American
history should take its light from this mountain-top. It has been
said that a great life went out here; but great lives, like that of
General Grant, do not go out. They go on'.
His quote is inscribed on Harrison's own tomb in Indiana.
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