"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." ― Daniel Webster Topic(s): Power More From Daniel Webster "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens." "Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together." "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." More In Power "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."― Aldous Huxley "Power is not alluring to pure minds."― Thomas Jefferson "Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name."― Andrea Dworkin