William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrisonwas the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take office until Ronald Reagan in 1981. Harrison died on his 32nd day in office of complications from pneumonia, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. His death sparked a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth9 February 1773
CityCharles City County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
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.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
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.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.