Daniel Webster – 12 Quotes

12 Quotes by Daniel Webster

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

– Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

– Daniel Webster

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

– Daniel Webster

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

– Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

– Daniel Webster

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

– Daniel Webster

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

– Daniel Webster

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

– Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

– Daniel Webster

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.

– Daniel Webster

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

– Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.

– Daniel Webster