Quotes from William Henry Harrison

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

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

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.