William Henry Harrison Quotes

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

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

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

Times change, and we change with them.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government