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

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

Inaugural address (1841)

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

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

Inaugural address (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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