Daniel Webster Quotes

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

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

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

The States are nations.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

I still live. Pretty.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Thank God, I also am an American!

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

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

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

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

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

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.

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.