Frases de William Henry Harrison (12 citas)

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

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William Henry Harrison

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

“The strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

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William Henry Harrison

Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (Philadelphia, PA: Key & Biddle, 1836).

“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 powerful fleet.”

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William Henry Harrison

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

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

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William Henry Harrison

Final words. Quoted in Jebediah Whitman, "A Memorial to Our Dear Departed President (New Ark, DE: Printed by the Author, 1841).

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

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William Henry Harrison

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

“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 remembrance of the pledge I have this day given to discharge all the high duties of my exalted station according to the best of my ability, and I shall enter upon their performance with entire confidence in the support of a just and generous peeps.”

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William Henry Harrison

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

“…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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William Henry Harrison

Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in The Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison: Comprising a Brief Account of His Important Civil and Military Services (Philadelphia, PA: Grigg & Elliot, 1840)

“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.”

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William Henry Harrison

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

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

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William Henry Harrison

Speech given on October 1, 1840

“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 of the land. The executive of the Union has immense power to do mischief if he sees fit to exercise that power. He may prostrate the country. Indeed this country has been already prostrated. It has already fallen from pure republicanism to a monarchy in spirit if not in name.”

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William Henry Harrison

Speech at Fort Meigs (11 June 1840). Quoted in A B Norton, The Great Revolution of 1840: Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. (Mount Vernon, OH and Dallas, TX: A B Norton & Co, 1888). p.186