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By William Henry Harrison
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.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From William Henry Harrison's inaugural address on March 4, 1841. He is saying that people stay free only while they stay watchful, since the love of power never goes away.