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William Henry Harrison

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


— William Henry Harrison


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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.


— William Henry Harrison


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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.


— William Henry Harrison


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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.


— William Henry Harrison


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I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.


— William Henry Harrison


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Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.


— William Henry Harrison


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


— William Henry Harrison


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


— William Henry Harrison


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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.


— William Henry Harrison


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About William Henry Harrison

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Did you know about William Henry Harrison?

He offered Harrison the rank of brigadier general which he refused as he wanted sole command of the army. In these early years Harrison also earned money from his contributions to a biography written by James Hall entitled A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison publiWilliam Henry Harrisond in 1836. In 1803 Harrison lobbied Congress to repeal Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance in order to permit slavery in the Indiana Territory.

His death sparked a brief constitutional crisis but that crisis ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. As a general in the subsequent War of 1812 his most notable action was in the Battle of the Thames in 1813 which brought an end to hostilities in his region. Defeated he retired again to his farm before being elected president in 1840 and died of pneumonia in April 1841 a month after taking office.

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