"Is one of the fairest portions of the……" — William Henry Harrison
"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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William Henry Harrison
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17 Quotes by William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison has 17 quotes on this site.
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Times change, and we change with them.
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All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to…
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The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to…
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has…
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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain…
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Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise…
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I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and…
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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