William Henry Harrison quote: "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they coul...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are dire...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fi...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask noth...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to absta...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are direc...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich ric...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

Times change, and we change with them.
WILLIAM HARRISON

In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in...
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the t...
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extens...
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
WILLIAM HENRY

The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.
WILLIAM HENRY

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
WILLIAM HENRY

Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!
WILLIAM HENRY

It just proves what I've always believed. You can't let any one person take hold of your dreams; you...
WILLIAM HENRY

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
WILLIAM HENRY

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen
WILLIAM HENRY

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds a...
WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the ...
WILLIAM HENRY DANFORTH

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inch...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us...
WILLIAM HENRY PREECE

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later f...
WILLIAM HENRY MOODY

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD

I am one of the crucified dead.
WILLIAM HENRY MOODY

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the t...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on boa...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath th...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING

Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From th...
WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to a...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

It appears from this information that the river is not the Multnomah, a southern branch of the Colum...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the countr...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties o...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not m...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

Christ is the eternal Son of God, and He is in His divine attributes the same yesterday and today an...
WILLIAM HENRY FROST

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

I turned my head and saw the wind,Not far from where I stood,Dragging the corn by her golden hair,In...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise ...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

I love thee for a heart that's kind --not for the knowledge in thy mind.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

My walls outside must have some flowers,My walls within must have some books;A house that's small; a...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Good morning, Life -- and allThings glad and beautiful.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and th...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding t...
WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instin...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascen...
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY

With this small house, this garden large,This little gold, this lovely mate,With health in body, pea...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM HENRY III

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't real...
RANDY HARRISON

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn'...
RANDY HARRISON

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to k...
RANDY HARRISON

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to...
RANDY HARRISON

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. Peo...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and...
RANDY HARRISON

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat we...
RANDY HARRISON

It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
RANDY HARRISON

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all....
RANDY HARRISON

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV cre...
RANDY HARRISON

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good...
RANDY HARRISON

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
RANDY HARRISON

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec...
RANDY HARRISON

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that th...
RANDY HARRISON

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
RANDY HARRISON

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and prov...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not t...
RANDY HARRISON

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself....
RANDY HARRISON

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get...
RANDY HARRISON

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's...
RANDY HARRISON

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wante...
RANDY HARRISON

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it&#...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with peopl...
RANDY HARRISON

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's re...
RANDY HARRISON

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negativ...
RANDY HARRISON

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
RANDY HARRISON

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD

I don't think there is much American music.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various thre...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way pai...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I'm not an architectural composer.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

It's the irrational things that interest me.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whateve...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are w...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
JERRY HARRISON

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
GEORGE HARRISON

Success and money can really be quite blinding.
JIM HARRISON

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a pla...
GEORGE HARRISON

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON

The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as we...
LISI HARRISON

Life flows on within you and without you.
GEORGE HARRISON

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
HARRISON SALISBURY

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD

Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel ...
LISI HARRISON

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in ete...
R.K. HARRISON

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.
LISI HARRISON

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleadi...
GEORGE HARRISON

Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real LISI HARRISON

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real li...
LISI HARRISON

It's all in the mind.
GEORGE HARRISON

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or...
GEORGE HARRISON

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ...
REX HARRISON

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of th...
EDWARD HARRISON

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
ELIZABETH HARRISON

There
REX HARRISON

The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of ...
EDWARD HARRISON

Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light.
EDWARD HARRISON

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
HARRY HARRISON

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
HARRISON CHRISTIAN

We have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles w...
GEORGE HARRISON

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.
GEORGE HARRISON

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to accou...
HARRISON CHRISTIAN

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
HARRISON FORD

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is ...
JANE HARRISON

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
HARRISON FORD

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
HARRISON FORD

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
GEORGE HARRISON

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amo...
GEORGE HARRISON

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book...
HARRISON FORD

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at ...
HARRISON FORD

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such ...
JIM HARRISON

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
JIM HARRISON

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good...
JIM HARRISON

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does...
GEORGE HARRISON

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of i...
GEORGE HARRISON

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on...
GEORGE HARRISON

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON

Gossip is the Devil's radio.
GEORGE HARRISON

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

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William Henry Harrison

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

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