Quotes from Daniel Webster

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

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

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

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.

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

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.

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

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.

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.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

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

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

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

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

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

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

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.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

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.

Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable!