Daniel Webster Quotes

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

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

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

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage...

What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge...

Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!

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

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

Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.

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.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an A...

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

There is always room at the top.

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

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

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

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, wil...

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tilla...

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

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

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

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for ...

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

Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.