Daniel Webster Quotes on Liberty & Freedom (10 Quotes)


    We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.

    This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion not an arena for the exhibition of champions.

    Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

    Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

    Mr. Webster's reply to the invitation of his friends, who had been refused the use of Faneuil Hall by the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston. I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.


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

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

    Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

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



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