Daniel Webster quotes

Daniel Webster was an American statesman and lawyer renowned for his powerful oratory and influential role in shaping U.S. politics during the 19th century. As a leading member of the Whig Party, he served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State. He became famous for his efforts to preserve the Union and his eloquent speeches on national unity. Here are 109 of his quotes:

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

Daniel Webster

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

Daniel Webster

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

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

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

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

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

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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

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On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

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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.

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

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There is always room at the top.

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The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

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

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill and there they will remain forever.

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One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

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I still live.

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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades shoemakers 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.

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

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