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"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." -
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Top 5 quotes from Daniel Webster
"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."
"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."
"Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government."
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Top 5 quotes from Government, Liberty
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel."
"The people are their own liberators."
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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