Daniel Webster Quotes

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• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Country, Men

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Powerful, Men, People

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• If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Religious, Book

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• There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

  Daniel Webster

  Mean, Men, Gun

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

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• The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Gun, Libertarian Party

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

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• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  Daniel Webster

  Inspirational, Anger, Management

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• Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

  Daniel Webster

  Exercise, Government, Safety

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• The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, People, Evil

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

  Daniel Webster

  God, Responsibility, Mind

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• If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

  Daniel Webster

  Communication, Taken, Possession

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

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

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• Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Men, Citizens

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.53

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• The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Law, People

  Daniel Webster, Robert Young Hayne (1850). “Webster and Hayne's speeches in the United States Senate, on Mr. Foot's resolution of January 1830: Also, Daniel Webster's speech, in the United States Senate, March 7, 1850, on the slavery compromise”, p.70

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

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Honesty, Powerful

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

  Daniel Webster

  Circumstances

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

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Political, Age

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.385, Beard Books

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• What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

  Daniel Webster

  Novelty, Originality, Valuable

  Daniel Webster (1851). “The Works”, p.433

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Men, Years

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• Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Years, America

  Letter to Dr. William B. Gooch of West Dennis, Massachusetts, in 1851. The Bay State Monthly, 1898.

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• Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, People, Inattention

  Daniel WEBSTER (1860). “The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of D. W.; the Declaration of Independence; and Washington's Farewell Address, Etc”, p.259

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• Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

  Daniel Webster

  Past, Looks, World

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• I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Hands, Forever, Unions

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• Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Religious, Men

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.49

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