Quotes By Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

There is always room at the top.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.