Daniel Webster

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

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

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

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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.

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

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

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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

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

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

I MISTRUST THE JUDGMENT OF EVERY MAN IN A CASE IN WHICH HIS OWN WISHES ARE CONCERNED.

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

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

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

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The materials of wealth are in the earth in the seas and in their natural and unaided productions.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Slavery is a continual and permanent violation of human rights.

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

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

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

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

There is always room at the top.

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!

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

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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.

Heavens gates are not so highly arched as princes palaces they that enter there must go upon their knees.

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

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.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.