A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
If we work on marble it will perish. If we work on brass, time will efface it. If we raise temples, they will crumble… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
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… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
