Quotes by William Harrison

• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
• The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
• To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
• Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
• I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
• 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 believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
• All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.