Daniel Webster Quotes and Sayings

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
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 Quote
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
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 Quote
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. ~ Daniel Webster Quote

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

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
Anger is not an argument. ~ Daniel Webster Quote

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. ~ Daniel Webster Quote

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. ~ Daniel Webster Quote
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 Quote
A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food. ~ Daniel Webster Quote

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 Quote
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 Quote

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