Daniel Webster Quotes

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.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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.
There is always room at the top.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Daniel Webster
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18 January, 1782
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24 October, 1852
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