Daniel Webster Quotes
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. 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.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
A free government with arbitrary means to administer it is a contradiction; a free government without adequate provisions for personal security is an absurdity; a free government, with an uncontrolled power of military conscription, is a solecism, at once the most ridiculous and abominable that ever entered the head of man.
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