Daniel Webster on fiat money

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

~ Daniel Webster, as quoted by Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University, in Fiat Money Inflation in France, p. 69

Daniel Webster,
1902-1903

Daniel Webster on the Law of Good Intentions

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.  There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.  They promise to be good masters, but mean to be masters.

~ Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster
1932