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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose still small voice the loudest revelry cannot drown.
William Henry Harrison
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William Henry Harrison
Age: 68 †
Born: 1773
Born: February 9
Died: 1841
Died: April 4
9Th U.S. President
Diplomat
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Charles City County
Virginia
William H. Harrison
Old Tippecanoe
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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?
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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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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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