Daniel Webster Quotes on Man (10 Quotes)

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe jewelers, a monster watch and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show

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.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mindthat is one of the best sources of knowledge.

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

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.

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.

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

If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations the relations between the creature and his Creator.