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Two decades later, [[U.S. Supreme Court]] justice [[David Brewer]] listed Flanagan's "What are we here for" speech among "The World's Best Orations."<ref>Brewer, David J. (1900). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_s_Best_Orations/fA3FmZ0sZt4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA4004&printsec=frontcover The World's Best Orations], p. 4,004. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
Two decades later, [[U.S. Supreme Court]] justice [[David Brewer]] listed Flanagan's "What are we here for" speech among "The World's Best Orations."<ref>Brewer, David J. (1900). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_s_Best_Orations/fA3FmZ0sZt4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA4004&printsec=frontcover The World's Best Orations], p. 4,004. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
==Later life and death==
From 1897–1913, Flanagan was a collector of internal revenue. In his civic activities, he bolstered the construction of the Henderson and Overton Branch Railroad,<ref name=tshabio/> in addition to contributing towards an improvement of livestock breeding in Rusk County, Texas.<ref name=tshabio/> He died on May 5, 1924, at Henderson, and is interred at a family cemetery. An editorial comment in the [[San Antonio]] ''Express'' eulogized:<ref name=ncsl1924/>
{{cquote|His famous oft-quoted speech (here recalled in full) serves to puncture as much hypocrisy of today—civil service or no civil service—as obtained when he, "Web" Flanagan, took it upon himself to speak the 1880 convention's mind against the policy of Rutherford B. Hayes.
Webster Flanagan well-deserved ninety-two years of life. He was a courageous, kindly, greatly useful Texan.|||''San Antonio Express'', May 7, 1924}}
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