Daniel Webster famous quotes

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
-- Daniel Webster

#Christian #Men #Citizens

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

#Mean #Men #Promise

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

#Veterans Day #Memorial Day #4th Of July

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

#Men #Justice #Together

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

#Truth #Liars #Lying

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
-- Daniel Webster

#Hands #Forever #Unions

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
-- Daniel Webster

#Years #Miracle #Historical

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
-- Daniel Webster

#Country #Freedom #4th Of July

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
-- Daniel Webster

#God #Responsibility #Mind

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
-- Daniel Webster

#Country #Men #Profound

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
-- Daniel Webster

#Freedom #Political #Age

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
-- Daniel Webster

#Men #Shoes #Gold

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
-- Daniel Webster

#Strong #Parent #Political

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
-- Daniel Webster

#Country #Religious #Book

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
-- Daniel Webster

#Freedom #People #Liberty

There is always room at the top.
-- Daniel Webster

#Motivational #Success #Life Changing

It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future
-- Daniel Webster

#Fall #Ambition #Fighting

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

#Law #Honor #May

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.
-- Daniel Webster

#Art #Men #Civilization

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

#Reality #Society #World

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
-- Daniel Webster

#Country #Destiny #America

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
-- Daniel Webster

#4th Of July #Government #People

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
-- Daniel Webster

#Science #Sea #Earth Day

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
-- Daniel Webster

#Failure #4th Of July #Energy

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

#Government #People #Evil

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
-- Daniel Webster

#Veterans Day #4th Of July #Blessing

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
-- Daniel Webster

#Communication #Taken #Possession

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
-- Daniel Webster

#Inspirational #Littles #Judgment

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
-- Daniel Webster

#Leadership #Patriotism #Born

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
-- Daniel Webster

#Suicide #Suicidal #Keeping Secrets

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
-- Daniel Webster

#Wisdom #Power #Politics

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

#Education #People #Institutions

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.
-- Daniel Webster

#Men #Giving #Special

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
-- Daniel Webster

#Power #People #Agents

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

#Men #House #Invention

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
-- Daniel Webster

#Mind #Levers #Ends

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
-- Daniel Webster

#Evil #Political #Currency

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
-- Daniel Webster

#People #Liberty #Watches

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
-- Daniel Webster

#4th Of July #Liberty #Proportion

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

#Truth #Honesty #Powerful