Daniel Webster

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

  • America
  • Government

• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  On Mr. Justice Story (September 12, 1845); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), page 300

  • Justice

• The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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