William Henry Harrison Quotes

• Times change, and we change with them.

  William Henry Harrison

  Change, Latin, Latin And Greek

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• The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

  William Henry Harrison

  People, Liberty, Attention

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

  William Henry Harrison

  Believe, Government, Purpose

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• Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

  William Henry Harrison

  Religious, Responsibility, Lasting Happiness

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

  William Henry Harrison

  Inspirational Life, Peculiar, Lessons

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.65, e-artnow sro

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• The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

  William Henry Harrison

  President, Politician, Legitimate Power

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

  William Henry Harrison

  Heart, Voice, Revelry

  William Henry Harrison (1833). “Christmas tales, historical and domestic”, p.187

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• The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

  William Henry Harrison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Presidential, Examination

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• To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

  William Henry Harrison

  Topics, Life Is, Englishmen

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• We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

  William Henry Harrison

  Believe, Men, Divine Right

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

  William Henry Harrison

  Adventure, Government, Law

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• The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Argument, Conspirators

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

  William Henry Harrison

  Civilization, Giving, Support

  "The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816". Book by John Brown Dillon, www.esquire.com. 1859.

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• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

  William Henry Harrison

  Military, Tyrants, Age

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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