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"40 Daniel Webster Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 18 January 1782. Died: 24 October 1852 | Politician |

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

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

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

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Exists Liberty Proportion Restraint
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Cannot Country Liberty Nor
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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.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Capital Energy Failure Frequently
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Destroy Involves Necessarily Power
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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There is always room at the top.

Always Room There Top
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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.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Bread Currency He Labor
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Honor Honored Law May
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Constitution Country Destiny One Country
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Forever Inseparable Liberty Now
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Good Inspired Make Man
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

American Born Die I Was Born
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Arising Changes Circumstances Often
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

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

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

Ever God Important Individual
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Any His House Invention
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Among Diffusion Education Free
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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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.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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Daniel Webster Quotes & Sayings