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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
— Daniel Webster
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
— Daniel Webster
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
— Daniel Webster
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
— John Quincy Adams
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
— Daniel Webster
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
— Daniel Webster
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
— Daniel Webster
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people
— Daniel Webster
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
— Daniel Webster
Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
— Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end.
— Daniel Webster
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
— Daniel Webster
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
— Daniel Webster
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830 — Daniel Webster
January 1830 — Daniel Webster
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
— Daniel Webster
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
— Daniel Webster
Instruct the mothers of the French people.
— Daniel Webster
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
— Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
— Daniel Webster
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
— Daniel Webster
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
— Daniel Webster
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
— Daniel Webster
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
— Daniel Webster
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.
— Daniel Webster
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
— Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
— Daniel Webster
That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
— Robert A. Caro
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.
— Daniel Webster
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
— Daniel Webster
The man is free who is protected from injury.
— Daniel Webster
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
— Taylor Hackford
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
— Daniel Webster
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
— Daniel Webster
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
— Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
— Daniel Webster
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
— Daniel Webster
Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate
— Herman Melville
Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!
— Daniel Webster
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
— Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
— Daniel Webster
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.
— Daniel Webster
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
— Daniel Webster
Thank God, I also am an American!
— Daniel Webster
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
— Daniel Webster
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
— Daniel Webster
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
— Daniel Webster
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
— Daniel Webster
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
— Daniel Webster
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
— Daniel Webster
The States are nations.
— Daniel Webster
I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
— Daniel Webster
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
— Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
— Daniel Webster
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.
— Daniel Webster
The farmers are the founders of civilization.
— Daniel Webster
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
— Daniel Webster
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
— Daniel Webster
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
— Daniel Webster