186 Quotes by Daniel Webster

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

I still live. Pretty.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.