Daniel Webster Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830
January 1830
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
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.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.