Classic Quotes by William Henry Harrison
1773-1841
American President
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.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
We admit of no government by divine right….The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
