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Sir, I wish you 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 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)

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.

I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.

Inaugural address (1841)

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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