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

— William Henry Harrison Inaugural address (1841)

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

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.

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

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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