William Henry Harrison quotes
William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who became the 9th President of the United States. His presidency was marked by the shortest term in U.S. history, lasting only 31 days. He died shortly after taking office, making his tenure one of the most notable for its brevity. Here are 16 of his quotes:
It is necessary, therefore, to watch, not the political opponents of the administration, but the administration itself, and to see that it keeps within the bounds of the Constitution and the laws of the land. The executive of the Union has immense power to do mischief if he sees fit to exercise that power. He may prostrate the country. Indeed this country has been already prostrated. It has already fallen from pure republicanism to a monarchy in spirit if not in name.
William Henry Harrison
...it is preposterous to suppose that a thought could for a moment have been entertained that the President, placed at the capital, in the center of the country, could better understand the wants and wishes of the people than their own immediate representatives, who spend a part of every year among them, living with them, often laboring with them, and bound to them by the triple tie of interest, duty, and affection.
William Henry Harrison
Fellow-citizens, being fully invested with that high office to which the partiality of my countrymen has called me, I now take an affectionate leave of you. You will bear with you to your homes the remembrance of the pledge I have this day given to discharge all the high duties of my exalted station according to the best of my ability, and I shall enter upon their performance with entire confidence in the support of a just and generous peeps.
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Occupation: American President
Born: February 9, 1773
Died: April 4, 1841
Quotes count: 16
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