David Baxter

David Baxter may refer to:

  • Sir David Baxter, 1st Baronet (1793–1872), Scottish linen manufacturer and philanthropist
  • David Baxter (footballer) (1910–1979), Australian rules footballer
  • David Baxter (poker player), American poker player
  • David S. Baxter (born 1955), member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or baxter:

    “Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)