More From Daniel Webster
- "The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
- "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
- "The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
More In Men
- "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."― Niccolo Machiavelli
- "I didn’t become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It’s not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more."― Nick Clegg
- "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."― Plato