Daniel Webster
Quotes by Daniel Webster
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
— Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
— Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
— Daniel Webster
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
— Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
— Daniel Webster
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
— Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
— Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
— Daniel Webster
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
— Daniel Webster
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
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
— Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end.
— Daniel Webster