Daniel Webster Quotes About Politics
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Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.
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It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.
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There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
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The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.
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A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
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I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.
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Daniel Webster
- Born: January 18, 1782
- Died: October 24, 1852
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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