Words matter. These are the best Daniel Webster Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
There is always room at the top.
Wisdom begins at the end.
