Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1078
AUTHOR:
Daniel Webster (17821852)
QUOTATION:
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
ATTRIBUTION:
Senator DANIEL WEBSTER, speech in the Senate, May 27, 1834, on President Andrew Jacksons protest.The Works of Daniel Webster, 10th ed., vol. 4, p. 133 (1857).