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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States. Harrison first gained national fame as a war hero, defeating American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). Harrison died exactly one month into his term, making his presidency briefer than any before or since. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office.
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William Henry Harrison Quotes
1. 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
2. A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.
― William Henry Harrison
3. I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
― William Henry Harrison
4. The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.
― William Henry Harrison
5. 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
6. Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.
― William Henry Harrison
7. The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
― William Henry Harrison
8. The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.
― William Henry Harrison
9. 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.
― William Henry Harrison
10. We admit of no government by divine right....The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
― William Henry Harrison
11. 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.
― William Henry Harrison
12. If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends. Beyond that they become destructive of public virtue, the parent of a spirit antagonist to that of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror.
― William Henry Harrison
13. I proceed to present to you a summary of the principles which will govern me...
― William Henry Harrison
14. The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed
― William Henry Harrison
15. The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
― William Henry Harrison
16. 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
17. Our citizens must be content with the exercise of the powers with which the Constitution clothes them.
― William Henry Harrison
18. Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
― William Henry Harrison
19. Times change, and we change with them.
― William Henry Harrison
20. I am the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County at your service . . . Some folks are silly enough to have formed a plan to make a president of the U.S. out of this clerk and clod hopper.
― William Henry Harrison
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