Daniel Webster Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Money, Divorce

• 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

• 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

• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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