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

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

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

- 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.

- William Henry Harrison

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

- William Henry Harrison

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

- 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.

- William Henry Harrison

Times change, and we change with them.

- William Henry Harrison

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

- William Henry Harrison