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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
Government
Purpose
Poor
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
Power
Nature
Feelings
Exercise
Nothing
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
Government
Purpose
Poor
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
Government
Purpose
Feeling
Poor
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry Harrison
Government
Nothing
Principles
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
William Henry Harrison
Life
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
Power
Right
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison
Military
Nation