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Quotes by Daniel Webster

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
– Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
– Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
– Daniel Webster
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
– Daniel Webster
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
– Daniel Webster
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
– Daniel Webster
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.
– Daniel Webster
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
– Daniel Webster
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
– Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
– Daniel Webster
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
– Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
– Daniel Webster
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
– Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
– Daniel Webster
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
– Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end.
– Daniel Webster
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
– Daniel Webster
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
– Daniel Webster
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
– Daniel Webster
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
– Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
– Daniel Webster
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
– Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
– Daniel Webster
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
– Daniel Webster