Daniel Webster Quotes About Voting

Quotes about: Voting

• 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

• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

• If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Responsibility, Blessing

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”

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