American - President | February 9, 1773 - April 4, 1841
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
William Henry Harrison
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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.
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