William Henry Harrison quotes

1773–1841 · Berkeley Plantation, VA

• Of all the great interests which appertain to our country, that of union--cordial, confiding, fraternal union--is by far the most important, since it is the only true and sure guaranty of all others.

• ...sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...

• The danger to all well-established free governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in its existence or from the influence of designing men diverting their attention from the quarter whence it approaches to a source from which it can never come.

• A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

• The same causes will ever produce the same effects, and as long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understandings of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.