Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by William Henry Harrison

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American president William Henry Harrison.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest presidency in U.S. history. He was also the first U.S president to die in office, and a brief constitutional crisis resulted as presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies and was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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. — © 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.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
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.
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.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
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.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
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.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
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.
Times change, and we change with them. — © William Henry Harrison
Times change, and we change with them.
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.
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?
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