Here may I not ask you to carry those inscriptions that now hang on the walls into your homes, into the schools of your city, into all of your great institutions where children are gathered, and teach them that the eye of the young and the old should look upon that flag as one of the familiar glories of every American?
ATTRIBUTION:
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), U.S. president. Speech in New York, April 30, 1889. Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the United States, p. 273, Government Printing Office (1893).
Harrison was the Centennial President, marking 100 years since the inauguration of George Washington.
