“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.”
― Daniel Webster
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
― Daniel Webster
“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
― Daniel Webster
“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”
― Daniel Webster, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers And Miscellaneous Letters
“If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest”
― Daniel Webster
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
― Daniel Webster
“There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange.”
― Daniel Webster
“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
― Daniel Webster
“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
― Daniel Webster
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”
― Daniel Webster
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”
― Daniel Webster
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
― Daniel Webster
“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.”
― Daniel Webster
“I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a “Divine interposition in our behalf… the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.”
― Daniel Webster
“The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830”
― Daniel Webster
“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”
― Daniel Webster
“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer – to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”
― Daniel Webster
“A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.”
― Daniel Webster
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”
― Daniel Webster
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. 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.”
― Daniel Webster
“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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― Daniel Webster
“Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!”
― Daniel Webster
“We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people”
― Daniel Webster
“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.”
― Daniel Webster
“I shall stand by the Union, and by all who stand by it. I shall do justice to the whole country…in all I say, and act for the good of the whole country in all I do. I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s, and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are the personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country’s fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he fall, in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country.”
― Daniel Webster
“There is always room at the top.”
― Daniel Webster
“Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.”
― Daniel Webster
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good
intentions.”
― Daniel Webster
“I still live.”
― Daniel Webster
“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”
― Daniel Webster
“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may”
― Daniel Webster
“Kebohongan bukan cuma berlawanan dengan kebenaran, tetapi juga sering saling bertentangan di antara mereka sendiri.”
― Daniel Webster
“Keep cool; anger is not an argument.”
― Daniel Webster
“We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land – not, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. The chart is the Constitution.”
― Daniel Webster at an address at Springfield Massachusetts on 29 September 1847
“Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.”
― Daniel Webster
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
― Daniel Webster
“One country, one constitution, one destiny.”
― Daniel Webster
“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the glorious ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in the original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as ‘What is all this worth?’ nor those words of delusion and folly, ‘Liberty first and Union afterward,’; but everywhere, spread over all the characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”
― Daniel Webster
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.”
― Daniel Webster
“History is God’s providence in human affairs.”
― Daniel Webster
“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”
― Daniel Webster
“Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.”
― Daniel Webster
“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life.”
― Daniel Webster
“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.”
― Daniel Webster
“The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.”
― Daniel Webster