"The people are the best guardians of their……" — William Henry Harrison
"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."
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William Henry Harrison
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17 Quotes by William Henry Harrison
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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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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a…
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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 Abstain Quotes
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— Saint Augustine
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When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from…
— Carre Otis
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of…
— George Washington
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one…
— Ayn Rand
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been…
— Henry David Thoreau
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