Quote of the day–Daniel Webster

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
Address, Massachusetts Convention, 1820
From The Great Thoughts, (but I have the first edition) compiled by George Seldes.
[Laws protecting property had a knife slipped between their ribs with the passage of the 16th Amendment. Laws protecting the possession of property mean nothing if you can’t purchase it to begin with. The government takes such a high proportion of my income that I don’t really work for myself and my family anymore. I work for the government which distributes my life energy to those people the government thinks are more worthy.


Where is Galt’s Gulch?–Joe]

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2 thoughts on “Quote of the day–Daniel Webster

  1. “Galt’s”

    It doesn’t exist, other than as a fantasy. I’d have already given up everything we own and all connection to this world, it it were anywhere, just to live there and have possession of what I earn. OWNING your own property, rather than having it subject to the caprice and whim of a government official would make living in a hovel superior to living in a McMansion.

  2. Fixed. Thanks.

    I know it’s fantasy. I just wish it weren’t.

    Friend Sean thinks Microsoft should just buy Costa Rica (MS Gross Profit is essentially identical to their GDP) and we could just all move there.

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