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Daniel Webster Quotes: "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.



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

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




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

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



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

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




Daniel Webster Quotes: "The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil."

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 Quotes: "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"

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 Quotes: "The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government."

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.




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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."

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



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Faith puts God between us and our circumstances."

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.




Daniel Webster Quotes: "The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions"

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



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world."

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 Quotes: "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Justice is the great interest of man on earth."

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men."

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people."

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it."

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause."

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "There is always room at the top."

There is always room at the top.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety."

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?"

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."

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 Quotes: "If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves."

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "The man is free who is protected from injury."

The man is free who is protected from injury.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.



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

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 Quotes: "Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Keep cool; anger is not an argument."

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence."

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching."

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils."

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.



Daniel Webster Quotes: "Mind is the great lever of all things."

Mind is the great lever of all things.



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States."

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.



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

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



Daniel Webster Quotes: "The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever."

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.