Daniel Webster Quotes (97 Quotes)

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

If we work upon marble, it will perish If we work upon brass, time will efface it If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust But if we work upon mens immoral minds And imbue them with high principles, With the just fear of God and love of their fellow man We engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, And which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

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

Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.

If we allow this to be the final step, our power has been greatly diminished as a legislature, ... If you can challenge the technical portions of a statute and say they really don't matter, I think we're in trouble.

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

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.

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

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

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

Labor is the great producer of wealth it moves all other causes.

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

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

It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach.

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me but my heart has always assured and reassured me that.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams 'On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being reminded that it was 'Independent Day,' he replied, 'Independence forever.'

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

But every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution, and bearing true faith and allegiance to it. That is the oath that I just took.

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

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

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.

If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity.

I still live.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

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.

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

There is always room at the top.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

I don't know how it will get out of committee. That's not my job.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Fearful concatenation of circumstances.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Washington is in the clear upper sky.

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