Daniel Webster Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

• Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Discovery, Ideas

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.60

• Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

  Daniel Webster

  Change, Political, Opinion

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.110, Beard Books

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