Quotes By William Henry Harrison

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

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

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

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.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

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

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

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

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