William Henry Harrison famous quotes

03-28-2025

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Adventure #Government #Presidential
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

#Exercise #Presidential #Feelings
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

#Exercise #Rights #Government
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?
-- William Henry Harrison

#Civilization #Giving #Support
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Topics #Life Is #Englishmen
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
-- William Henry Harrison

#People #Liberty #Attention
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Heart #Voice #Revelry
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
-- William Henry Harrison

#President #Politician #Grants
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Government #Presidential #Examination
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Military #Tyrants #Passing Away
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Religious #Responsibility #Liberty
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

#Inspirational Life #Peculiar #Lessons
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

#Believe #Government #Purpose
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Argument #Conspirators
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; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Believe #Men #Presidential
Times change, and we change with them.
-- William Henry Harrison

#Change

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