Quotes About William Henry Harrison

#1. No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

Scott Berkun

#2. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

#3. William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.

Robert Dallek

#4. He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

William C. Bryant

#5. They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Dorothea Dix

#6. As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

#7. 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

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

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

#12. I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

Misha Collins

#13. The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital ... if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

#15. In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a 'five days on and two off' schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.

Tim Cope

#16. 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.

William Henry Harrison

#17. The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

#19. No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

John Gay

#20. You heard her, she's already a creature with which one doesn't fuck.

Kresley Cole

#21. Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.

Georg Buchner

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

William Henry Harrison

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

William Henry Harrison

#24. I'm sorry, is there a revival of Shakespeare's Caesar I don't know about.

Ashlan Thomas

#25. 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

#26. Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

William Henry Harrison

#27. I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.

Henry Ford

#28. The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

William Henry Harrison

#29. A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

William Henry Harrison