As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understandings of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Safeguards of freedom Political theory

Speaker

William Henry Harrison

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Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison

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James Madison
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Time
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Era
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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Stevenson, Adlai. Speech in Switzerland. Economic and Social Council of United Nations meeting. 9 July 1965, Geneva, Switzerland.