The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation. - William Henry Harrison
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
- William Henry Harrison
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. - William Henry Harrison
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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 ex… - William Henry Harrison
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 ex…
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
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.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. - William Henry Harrison
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
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
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. - William Henry Harrison
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
Times change, and we change with them. - William Henry Harrison
Times change, and we change with them.
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