WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

The Republic...may suffer under the present imbecile chief, but the sober second thought of the people will restore it at out next Presidential election.

The greatest beggar and the most troublesome of all the office seekers during my Administration was General Harrison.

He did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

I alone am the acknowledged head of all the Indians.

The surest means of securing good behavior from this conspicuous personage [Tecumseh, 1768-1813] and his brother [the Prophet], would be to make them prisoners, but at this time … it is desirable that peace with all the Indian tribes should be preserved …

Why not give Palestine back to them again? According to God's distribution of nations it is their home, an inalienable possession from which they were expelled by force. Under their cultivation it was a remarkably fruitful land sustaining millions of Israelites who industrially tilled its hillsides and valleys. They were agriculturists and producers as well as a nation of great commercial importance -- the center of civilization and religion…. it is their home, an inalienable possession from which they were expelled by force. Under their cultivation it was a remarkably fruitful land sustaining millions of Israelites who industrially tilled its hillsides and valleys. They were agriculturists and producers as well as a nation of great commercial importance -- the center of civilization and religion…. Does not Palestine … rightfully belong to the Jews? …. If they could have autonomy in government the Jews of the world would rally to transport and establish their suffering brethren in their time-honored- habitation. For over seventeen centuries they have patiently waited for such an opportunity.

The representative of our government, whom President Harrison has sent here, is an ass, and ought to be moved from here at once. He has not the respect of the rabble, much less the better class. He is an Irish Catholic bigot of the baser sort, and a regular rough besides.

In upwards of half a century, this is the first instance of a Vice President's being called to act as President of the United States, and brings to the test that provision of the Constitution which places in the Executive chair a man never thought of for that office by anybody.

The times are such as ... to make it the duty of every friend of the country to keep a true lookout and if possible, discover and expose to the detestation of the world those traitors, who acting under foreign influences are plotting schemes destructive to the interests of their country.

I consider the veto power, therefore, given by the Constitution to the Executive of the United States solely as a conservative power, to be used only first, to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from the effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood, and, thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

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

If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends. Beyond that they become destructive of public virtue, the parent of a spirit antagonist to that of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror.

I consider the veto power ... to be used only ... to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood; and thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency.

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

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.