57 Powerful Quotes By Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator, was twice the U.S. Secretary of State and served twice in the U.S. House of Representative. He was only one of the two politicians to have served as Secretary of State under three different presidents. Webster was nominated for presidency of the Whig Party thrice during the first half of 19th century United States. He was also affiliated with other political parties namely Federalist Party and National Republican Party. Webster was one of the dynamic courtroom lawyers. He was also instrumental in negotiations of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 which helped in establishing boundaries between the United States and Canada. Being a persuasive orator, he also played a key part in evoking nationalism. Webster’s sayings and quotes are quite often quoted by people. Here are some of the most powerful quotes from this dynamic politician in American history.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession
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
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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.
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
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
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.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Wisdom begins at the end.
There is always room at the top.
