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“There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.”

Daniel Webster

A speech delivered at Niblo’s Saloon, in New York, on the 15 of March, 1837. <br class="br">The Works of Daniel Webster, Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851, vol. 1, p. 358 http://books.google.com/books?id=9DMOAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA358&amp;lpg=PA358&amp;dq=%22They+mean+to+govern+well%3B+but+they+mean+to+govern%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=oJ6IWDhF2B&amp;sig=iYuDQMQjnHzxMjzbd6rJohrXVrQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=xqYqTKDpFML-nAeF2omjAQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=10&amp;ved=0CCwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22They%20mean%20to%20govern%20well%3B%20but%20they%20mean%20to%20govern%22&amp;f=false.