Quotes By Daniel Webster

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is always room at the top.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

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.

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.