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Quote DB :: Authors :: Daniel Webster :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Daniel Webster Listed in: Government Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 6 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Daniel Webster "Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government." "It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever." "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy." "Wisdom begins at the end." "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange." Top 5 quotes from Government "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." "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." "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." "Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all."

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