Quotes By Daniel Webster

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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.

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

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.

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

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

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.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.