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 wi…"

"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 re…"

"Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."

"The strongest of all governments is that which is most free."

"The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens."

"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 t…"

"I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress."

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