William Henry Harrison Quotes

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• Times change, and we change with them.
• 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…
• The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal…
• 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;…
• 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…
• 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…
• Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
• 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.
• The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
• 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.
• All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
• 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…

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