Top 31 William Harrison Quotes
#1. 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
#2. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.
Lisi Harrison
#3. 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
#5. The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
#6. Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
William Henry Harrison
#7. It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said.
That's true. William agreed.
Lisi Harrison
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry Harrison
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
William Henry Harrison
#14. He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
William C. Bryant
#15. The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.
William Neal Harrison
#16. The sun enlightens everyone, but the light of knowledge enlightens those who are actively seeking the light.
Debasish Mridha
#17. A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
William Henry Harrison
#20. The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison
#22. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.
Greta Salpeter
#23. The ability of an audience to enter into the narrative arc of a movie is being lost; do today's audiences have the patience to wait for Harry Lime in The Third Man?
Roger Ebert
#24. Worrying was painful ... but compared to the alternative, a privilege
Laura Moriarty
#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. Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century.
C.S. Lewis
#28. During this time, Ainsworth met Charles Dickens and introduced the young writer to the publisher Macrone and to George Cruikshank. Ainsworth also introduced Dickens to
William Harrison Ainsworth
#29. Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
George Harrison
#30. The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison
#31. I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I just heard you play; you're amazing. I want you to play at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.' I looked at him, like, 'Sure pal!'
Tiesto
