Top 100 Daniel Webster Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “There is always room at the top.”

— Daniel Webster

3. “If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.”

— Daniel Webster

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

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

— Daniel Webster

8. “The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.”

— Daniel Webster

9. “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

10. “The farmers are the founders of civilization.”

— Daniel Webster

11. “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

12. “Keep cool; anger is not an argument.”

— Daniel Webster

13. “History is God’s providence in human affairs.”

— Daniel Webster

14. “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

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

— Daniel Webster

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16. “I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.”

— Daniel Webster

17. “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

18. “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

19. “We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land – nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

21. “Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

23. “If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.”

— Daniel Webster

24. “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

25. “Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life.”

— Daniel Webster

26. “Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.”

— Daniel Webster

27. “The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death.”

— Daniel Webster

28. “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

29. “What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”

— Daniel Webster

30. “Justice is the great interest of man on earth.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

32. “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

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

— Daniel Webster

34. “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

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

— Daniel Webster

36. “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

37. “There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”

— Daniel Webster

38. “I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.”

— Daniel Webster

39. “Let our object be – our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument – not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.”

— Daniel Webster

40. “Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.”

— Daniel Webster

41. “Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”

— Daniel Webster

42. “Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.”

— Daniel Webster

43. “When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

45. “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

46. “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

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

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

49. “One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations – the relations between the creature and his Creator.”

— Daniel Webster

50. “There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.”

— Daniel Webster