Quotes by Daniel Webster

“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”

“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...”

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

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

“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.”

“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”

“Keep cool anger is not an argument. ”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“There is always room at the top.”

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

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

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

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

“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.”

“I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.”