William Henry Harrison
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"William Henry Harrison" was the List of Presidents of the United States/ninth President of the United States (1841), an Military history of the United States/American military officer and Politics of the United States/politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take office until Ronald Reagan in 1981. Harrison died on his 32nd day in office of complications from pneumonia, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. His death sparked a brief constitutional crisis, but its resolution settled many questions about United States presidential line of succession#Acting President and President/presidential succession left unanswered by the United States Constitution/Constitution until the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution/25th Amendment in 1967. He was the #Legacy/grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, who was the 23rd President from 1889 to 1893.

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The engine would be in orbit, producing a beam of photons. The spacecraft would not have to carry that mass along.

The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.

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

No one has ever done this before. These results would not have been possible without newly developed ultralight, high-temperature sail materials and beamed-energy propulsion methods.

All I can say is a picture is worth a thousand words.

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

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.

The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Clearly if you can do it than I have to be concerned that someone else can as well.

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

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

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.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.