"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy." ― Daniel Webster Topic(s): Power More From Daniel Webster "Wisdom begins at the end." "The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." "Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together." More In Power "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."― Agnes de Mille "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance."― Hannah Arendt "The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."― Chanakya