"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy." ― Daniel Webster Topic(s): Power More From Daniel Webster "The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." "Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may." "Keep cool; anger is not an argument." More In Power "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."― Mary Pickford "The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute."― Charles de Gaulle "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."― Thor Heyerdahl