Quotes from Daniel Webster

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

The States are nations.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

There is always room at the top.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

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

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

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.