Daniel Webster Political Quotations

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

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

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.

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.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

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.