Quotes By Daniel Webster

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

There is always room at the top.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

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.