17 Quotes By Daniel Webster


Keep cool anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster on anger

Keep cool anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster on cool

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Daniel Webster on education

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster on failure

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster on government

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster on government

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster on men

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster on power

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster on power

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 on society

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster on truth

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster on wisdom

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

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster on liberty

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 on nature

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
Daniel Webster on people