Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. – Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre