Top 100 Daniel Webster Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”

— Daniel Webster

52. “No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.”

— Daniel Webster

53. “The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”

— Daniel Webster

54. “The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.”

— Daniel Webster

55. “Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.”

— Daniel Webster

56. “Power naturally and necessarily follows property.”

— Daniel Webster

57. “I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.”

— Daniel Webster

58. “No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.”

— Daniel Webster

59. “Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

61. “Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.”

— Daniel Webster

62. “The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.”

— Daniel Webster

63. “Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.”

— Daniel Webster

64. “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

65. “I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”

— Daniel Webster

66. “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;.”

— Daniel Webster

67. “America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.”

— Daniel Webster

68. “Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.”

— Daniel Webster

69. “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

70. “The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow – man.”

— Daniel Webster

71. “We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.”

— Daniel Webster

72. “If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.”

— Daniel Webster

73. “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

74. “If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.”

— Daniel Webster

75. “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

76. “Thank God, I also am an American!”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

78. “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

79. “On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like “another morn,” “Risen on mid-noon;” and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.”

— Daniel Webster

80. “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”

— Daniel Webster

81. “I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.”

— Daniel Webster

82. “Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.”

— Daniel Webster

83. “The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”

— Daniel Webster

84. “I still live. Pretty.”

— Daniel Webster

85. “Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that.”

— Daniel Webster

86. “If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.”

— Daniel Webster

87. “A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.”

— Daniel Webster

88. “Instruct the mothers of the French people.”

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

90. “Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.”

— Daniel Webster

91. “Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”

— Daniel Webster

92. “A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.”

— Daniel Webster

93. “The States are nations.”

— Daniel Webster

94. “One country, one constitution, one destiny.”

— Daniel Webster

95. “When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.”

— Daniel Webster

96. “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”

— Daniel Webster

97. “We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.”

— Daniel Webster

98. “A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”

— Daniel Webster

99. “All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.”

— Daniel Webster

100. “A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.”

— Daniel Webster