Daniel Webster Quotes

Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
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Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
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I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
Daniel Webster
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830
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The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.t
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
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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
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster