The Best Daniel Webster quotes

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

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

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

Power naturally and necessarily follows property. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. — Daniel Webster

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety. — Daniel Webster

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men. — Daniel Webster

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? — Daniel Webster

The States are nations. — Daniel Webster

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. — Daniel Webster

Thank God, I also am an American! — Daniel Webster

I was born an amerIcan I wIll lIve an amerIcan I shall dIe an amerIcan. — 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

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. — Daniel Webster

One country, one constitution, one destiny. — Daniel Webster

The constitution was made to guard The people against The dangers of good intentions. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. — Daniel Webster

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

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch–tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster

Every man’s life, liberty, and property are in danger when the legislature is in session. — Daniel Webster

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

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. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable! — Daniel Webster

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. — Daniel Webster

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief–making and money catching. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

I’m glad that they are mobilizing to try to enact a policy that will save lives. — Daniel Webster

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life. — Daniel Webster

I dId expect a reductIon [but] 40% Is probably a lIttle hIgher than I would have guessed. — Daniel Webster

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. — Daniel Webster

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. — 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

This resource strain is a function of the system we have in place. there’s a huge social cost for having a second amendment and relatively lax gun laws. — Daniel Webster

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

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

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. — Daniel Webster

The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830 — Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury. — Daniel Webster

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. — Daniel Webster

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