Quotes from Daniel Webster

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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

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.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.