Quotes By Daniel Webster

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

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.

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

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

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.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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.

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

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

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