Daniel Webster Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

• In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, at times, for violence and revolution.

  Daniel Webster

  Thinking, Law, Class

• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Political, Kitchen

• A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Government, Law

• It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Law, Government

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.207

• Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.204

• The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Hands, Law

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.45, Beard Books

• There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Hands, Class

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.517

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