Daniel Webster Quotes:
Ocupation: Former United States Senator
Life: January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852
Birthday: January 18
Death: October 24
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.
source: Speech, New York, N.Y., 10 Mar. 1831
topic: Feet, Rocks, Perfect, Minerva, Financial System
