Quotes by William Henry Harrison

“The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government”

“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.”

“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 rich richer and the poor poorer.”

“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.”

“It is necessary, therefore, to watch, not the political opponents of the administration, but the administration itself, and to see that it keeps within the bounds of the Constitution and the laws o...”

“...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

“Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”

“…it is preposterous to suppose that a thought could for a moment have been entertained that the President, placed at the capital, in the center of the country, could better understand the wants and...”

“I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.”

“There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.”

“The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens.”

“It may be observed, however, that organized associations of citizens requiring compliance with their wishes too much resemble the recommendations of Athens to her allies, supported by an armed and ...”

“Fellow-citizens, being fully invested with that high office to which the partiality of my countrymen has called me, I now take an affectionate leave of you. You will bear with you to your homes the...”

“William Henry Harrison's death marked the first time in American history that presidential power abruptly transferred from one man to another. It is a testament to the American system that without ...”

“A plain-spoken man, Harrison was good-natured, affable, and accessible. The Reverend Timothy Flint, a frequent visitor to his home at North Bend, Ohio, described him as urbane, hospitable, kind, an...”

“Yelping at the scent of a wounded fox, the Whigs threw everything into the campaign of 1840. It is still remembered as one of the great campaigns, and yet great seems too majestic a word for what w...”