Inspirational 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, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
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.
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
There is always room at the top.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
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